Friends of Clark County viewpoint
Given the task, is this a logical sequence of review steps for preparing an update for the county growth plan?
1) Await the outcome of appewals to the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board of the previous plan. Address any problems that are remanded back to the county to correct.
2) Await the comprehensive plan monitoring report. Evaluate it to see how well the last comp plan assumptions are meeting goals.
3) Review and revise the previous data and/or policy assumptions that demonstrably are not working.
4) Solicit city and property owner requests. Evaluate the city Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Capital Facility Plans (CFP).
5) Draw lines on a map with the necessary urban growth boundary area changes with proposed land use (zoning) designations. Include any revised assumptions, feasible city requests, corrections required by the Growth Management Hearings Board and changes suggested by the monitoring report.
6) Prepare a CFP that demonstrates how the planned growth will be paid for and makes any corrections required by the Growth Management Hearings Board.
7) Do an EIS analysis of the new plan.
8) Hold open houses with every city to gather citizen comments.
9) Include any appropriate changes to the map, CFP and EIS that result.
10) Hold Planning Commission public hearings.
11) Hold BoCC public hearings.
12) If necessary, revise county code to adopt an amended 20 year county comprehensive growth plan one time only, not annually.
13) Adopt amended 20 year county growth plan.
So far the county has skipped steps 1 and 2. Until steps 3 and 4 are complete, steps 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are on hold. Step 12 has already gone through a Planning Commission public hearing (they voted 6-1 against adopting the changes requested by the BoCC.
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