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STATE OF WASHINGTON County of Jefferson A Resolution in the Matter of Additional Instructions and Directives to County Personnel Regarding Review, Analysis and Any Future Potential Amendments to the 1998 Comprehensive Plan } } } } } RESOLUTION NO, 29-00 WHEREAS, Jefferson County has now completed its first round of Comprehensive Plan Amendments as mandated by the Growth Management Act; WHEREAS, some 14 amendments were subject to the entire process of professional planning review at the local and state level, public comment, review by the Planning Commission and review and consideration by the Board of County Commissioners; WHEREAS, the County, defined specifically as the citizens, the County Commissioners, the Planning Commission and the County's planning and legal personnel, have learned much from the process of completing one cycle of the Comprehensive Plan amendments; WHEREAS, this first cycle of Comprehensive Plan amendments has revealed to all involved in the amendment process that certain matters require further study and analysis as well as prompt completion of possible action steps, including, but not limited to, amendments to the Comprehensive Plan before any other plan amendments are accepted for potential review and consideration, so as to remedy certain deficiencies; and WHEREAS, the matters revealed to all involved also indicate that these matters requiring further study must be examined in a systematic manner rather than individually; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners ("the Board") as follows: 1. The Board directs the County Administrator to charge county staff with investigating the matters described below and providing such appropriate oral and written advice to the Board as staff deems necessary and relevant; 2. The Board encourages staff, in performing the directive from the Administrator, to seek assistance, when and to the extent necessary, from the Prosecuting Attorney's office; Resolution No. 29~.oO Page 2 3. The charge to county staff from the Board includes instruction from the Board to study and investigate certain of the LNG's (land use goals) and LNP (land use policies) found in the Comprehensive Plan because they do not provide the Board with sufficient direction when applying that LNG and its related LNP's during the Comprehensive Plan amendment process; 4. The Board hereby informs county staff that it found that it was not provided sufficient direction by the current formulation of LNG 3.0 and all of the LNP's that grow out of that LNG 3.0; 5. The Board hereby expresses its concerns (and the concerns of some portion of the citizenry of the county) to staff that the ambiguity inherent in LNG 3.0 and its subordinate LNP's has the potential to work against one of the stated goals of the County's Comprehensive Plan: to maintain the present variety of rural residential densities, i.e., RR 1:5, RR 1:10 andRR 1:20; 6. The Board directs staff to investigate and later report to the Board on potential courses of action regarding LNG 3.0 and its subordinate LNP's, including, but not limited to, the revision of that LNG and its LNP's and/or not accepting for professional, public and final review by the Board any future Comprehensive Plan amendments that touch upon or impacted by LNG 3.0 and its subordinate LNP's; 7. The Board directs staff to investigate (and subsequently provide the appropriate reports, oral or written, to it) regarding the topic of "limited areas of more intense rural development," a term of art added to the Growth Management in 1997 Act by SB 6094, specifically whether or not this County's Comprehensive Plan truly reflects all of the opportunities, methods, techniques and tools created or promoted by SB 6094 for growth and enlargement of rural commercial enterprises without the creation of low- density urbanAype sprawl; 8. County staff is particularly directed by the Board to determine whether there are opportunities for the location and generation of additional or expanded "limited areas of more intense rural development" through new development regulations; 9. Specifically, with respect to SB 6094 and the opportunities it provides, the Board directs county staff to analyze, study and investigate whether new development regulations should include mechanisms that encourage small businesses or tourist or recreational enterprises in rural areas, e.g., through a conditional use permit process, as is permitted by SB 6094 and this County's Comprehensive Plan; Resolution No. 29,~00 Page 3 10. 11. Specifically, with respect to SB 6094 and the opportunities it provides, the Board directs county staff to analyze, study and investigate the language of LNG 5.0 and its subordinate LNP's to determine whether or not that portion of the Comprehensive Plan is in conformance with a reasonable and meaningful interpretation of the provisions of SB 6094 regarding promoting commercial growth in the rural areas of Jefferson County and may be, in fact, according to the opinion held by certain citizens of this county, a major obstacle to commercial growth in rural areas ofthis county; Specifically with respect to SB 6094 and the opportunity it provides, the Board directs county staff to analyze whether LNG 5.0 and its subordinate LNP's as presently formulated tend to undercut or work contTary to the decision to move forward with a "sub-area" plan for Brinnon as outlined in LNP 4.8; 12. The Board has previously directed that a "sub-area" plan for Brinnon (to be generated under the supervision and management of county staff) that is detailed, comprehensive in its scope and inclusive of all opinions be generated pursuant to LNP 4.8; 13. The Board hereby states that such a well-executed "sub-area" plan can and should provide the statistical and community support that are an essential foundation for successful comprehensive plan amendments, i.e., plan amendments that are in conformance with the GMA; 14. The Board hereby states that it will look favorably upon future comprehensive plan amendments relating to "South" county, including, but not limited to, proposed plan amendments that relate to commercial development there, if any particular plan amendment for the "South" county is supported by the appropriate growth management indicators, complies with the Growth Management Act (including SB 6094) and holds the support of the citizenry residing there; 15. The Board hereby directs County staff to obtain and review certain earlier Resolutions of the Board of County Commissioners asking that the County planning staff perform certain work or analysis required or generated by or arising out of the enactment of the County's Comprehensive Plan in 1998 and subsequently to report to the County Administrator and the Board whether the work or analysis previously requested in those Resolutions is complete, and, if not complete, the scope and nature, in time and expenditures, of the additional steps or efforts that will be necessary to finish the work previously requested by the Board. Resolution No, 29-00 Page 4 16. The Board hereby states that it will provide county staff with the necessary resources and professional staff to complete the directives listed in this Resolution to the extent permitted by the budget and finances of Jefferson County. cÞ ~ APPROVED AND ADOPTED this L. day of 2000. JE BOARD OF C Seal: " ...-/"~-'- , .r f:. ,."." ":~J.~~";l',' ,,"', .. ,. ' , -.....," c- .. , ~ .'0', .. ~.J)j "'> 'ts':J"'t\))/ " "'",:..,.,..~,¥,.-,~~.",., Richard Wojt, Chair f)/tYl Ii " Dan Harpole, M" er ß- Glen Huntingfor ;c;:et 'JkQ" Lorna Delaney, CMC ~ Clerk of the Board APPROVED AS TO FORM: Q~~' ~