Clark County Comprehensive Plan: Unique Opportunities and Resolutions.

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Clark County Comprehensive PlanUnique
Opportunities and Resolutions.

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February 12, 2008
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Unique Opportunities

• Comprehensive Plan
• Planning Assumptions
• Capital Facilities Planning
• Environmental Impact Statement
• Agricultural Land Analysis
• Schools Element

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Unique Opportunities

• Revisiting the OFM population forecast for year
  2024
• 2004 Adopted Plan 1.69 annual growth rate
  (517,700 people in urban areas)
• 2007 Adopted Plan 2.0 annual growth rate
  (584,300 in urban areas)

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Unique Opportunities

• Revisiting the employment target for 2024
• 2004 Adopted Plan 70,000 new jobs
• 2007 Adopted Plan 138,000 new jobs
• Board policy to increase jobs to housing ratio1
  job for 1.39 persons

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Unique Opportunities

• Capital Facilities Planning
• 2004 Adopted Plan CFP material trailed land use
  work no complete revenue/expenditure forecasting
• 2007 Adopted Plan CFP material in lock-step
  with land use work Tech Team of
  multi-disciplinary staff members generating
  comprehensive revenue/expenditure forecasting
  (especially for transportation CFP)

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Unique Opportunities

• Environmental Impact Statement Out of the Box
  Thinking
• 2004 Adopted Plan Five different alternatives
• 2007 Adopted Plan Three alternatives
• No Action Alternative (no UGA expansions)
• 2005 Discussion Map (preferred proposal)
• Geographic Flexibility Map (19 subareas
  evaluated and numerous permutations of
  alternatives)

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Unique Opportunities

• Agricultural Land Analysis
• Board convened committee to locally define long
  term commercial significance No conclusion
  drawn
• An eye on Hearings Board cases and on court cases
  Lewis County and Snohomish County

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Unique Opportunities

• Agricultural Land Analysis
• Analysis of the Agricultural Economic Trends and
  Conditions in Clark County, Washington,
  published May 2007 by Globalwise
• Matrix of criteria using WAC guidelines developed
  by County
• Hearings and deliberations by the Planning
  Commission and Board using criteria matrix

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Unique Opportunities

• Schools Element new to plan
• County-wide planning policy
• The county and each city shall give full
  consideration to the importance of school
  facilities and encourage development of
  sustainable learning environments through the
  adoption and implementation of county and city
  comprehensive land use plan policies and
  development regulations.

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Unique Opportunities

• Schools Element new to plan
• County-wide planning policy establishes school
  advisory body comprised of the following
• Clark County and cities
• School districts and special purpose districts
• Other interest groups

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Unique Opportunities

• School advisory body undertakes a review of the
  following
• Uniform data collection
• State and federal law issues
• Policy development and implementation

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Unique Opportunities

• Policy development and implementation
• Actively participate in the development of city
  and county comprehensive plans and development
  regulations relating to or impacting schools
  including
• Location of Urban Growth Areas
• Location and mix of residential land use
  designations
• Commercial/industrial tax base within each school
  district
• Potential location of future school sites
• Potential co-location of school facilities with
  other public facilities (i.e. parks)
• Phasing of residential development
• Private/public partnerships
• School facility permitting processes
• School impact fees and
• Last resort safety net considerations.

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Unique Resolutions

• Urban growth area (UGA) expansions
• Revisiting urban holding policies
• Three Creeks Special Planning Area
• Three Creeks Advisory Council
• Interlocal Agreement with the City of Vancouver

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Unique Resolutions

• Urban Growth Area expansions
• All cities gain in UGA expansions
• Battle Ground 1,500 acres
• Camas 2,400 acres
• LaCenter 1,425 acres
• Ridgefield 1,685 acres
• Vancouver 4,000 acres
• Washougal 1,000 acres
• 12,000 acres total with 4,250 acres of
  agricultural land converting to urban

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Unique Resolutions

• Revisiting urban holding policies
• 2004 Adopted Plan Policies included circulation
  plans, various urban service provisions,
  annexation or commitment thereto
• 2007 Adopted Plan Policies include two specific
  sub-area plans, transportation plans and
  financial commitments thereto, annexation or
  commitment thereto

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Unique Resolutions

• Three Creeks Special Planning Area
• Hazel Dell, Lake Shore, Felida, Salmon Creek,
  Fairgrounds, Mill Creek, and Pleasant Valley
• 27.5 square miles
• 69,000 people
• Three Creeks Advisory Council appointed by Board
  of County Commissioners

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Unique Resolutions

• Three Creeks Advisory Council
• Business and neighborhood associations
• Special purpose districts and other service
  providers
• Citizens at large
• Board member and representatives from Ridgefield
  and Vancouver

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Unique Resolutions

• Three Creeks Advisory Council
• Purpose To give residents living there a larger
  and more direct voice in planning for their own
  future.
• Transportation plans
• Land use plans
• Other matters as the Board may deem appropriate

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Unique Resolutions

• Interlocal Agreement (ILA) with the City of
  Vancouver
• Purpose and principles
• Development process
• Annexation Blueprint

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ILA Purpose

• Set substantive agreements regarding
• Coordinated service provision
• Annexation
• Comprehensive planning in the Vancouver UGA

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ILA Principles

• Cooperative relationship
• Consistent (or as near as possible) development
  regulations
• Existing policy
• Urban services
• Annexation Blueprint
• Fiscal impacts transition agreements

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ILA Annexation Blueprint

• Substantive Agreements
• Annexation Blueprint Update. It is agreed that
  such blueprint
• Establishes annexation subareas based on logical
  service boundaries
• Generally provides for balanced annexations
• Provides timing and sequencing schedule

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ILA Effectuate the Blueprint

• Substantive Agreements
• Agreement to Effectuate the Blueprint
• Work cooperatively in effectuating
  annexations within
  the VUGA
• The City shall maintain a website and provide the
  County notice of new proposals
• The County may respond to pending proposals by
  indicating its intent to
• actively support,
• remain neutral, or
• assert inconsistencies.

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ILA Annexation Support

• Substantive Agreements
• County agrees to support annexations
• City required covenants in DR
• Signature certification process
• Sign petitions for county-owned land

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ILA Development Standards

• Substantive Agreements
• Development Regulations Consistent (or as near
  as possible) within the VUGA
• Transportation concurrency
• Street standards
• Land use and zoning development standards
• Stormwater standards

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ILA Capital Facilities

• Substantive Agreements
• Capital Facilities. Consistent capital facilities
  within the VUGA
• Transportation Impact Fees
• Transportation Benefit District
• Transportation planning
• Transportation systems operations and maintenance
• Parks

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ILA Next Steps

• Work programs - implementation
• Annexation notices

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Clark County Comprehensive PlanUnique
Opportunities and Resolutions.
CONCLUSION OF PRESENTATION

• Prepared by Martin Snell, Director
• Clark County Community Planning
• February 12, 2008
• Comp Plan website http//www.clark.wa.gov/longran
  geplan/review/index.html