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STATE OF WASHINGTON County of Jefferson A Resolution in the Matter of Establishing that Jefferson County Will Not Accept Certain Proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendments From Its Citizens During 2000. } } } } } RESOLUTION NO, 32-00 WHEREAS, the first cycle of receiving, analyzing, discussing and voting upon amendments to the County's 1998 Comprehensive Plan has been completed by the County Commissioners nearly one year after it began; WHEREAS, the County Commissioners have been informed that hundreds and hundreds of hours of planners' time and attorney's time have been consumed as the County went through this first cycle of amendments; WHEREAS, the first cycle of Comprehensive Plan amendments has revealed that the language of the County's Comprehensive Plan as it relates to rural commercial development requires immediate analysis ftom a planning and legal perspective; WHEREAS, immediate completion of the planning and legal analysis regarding the Comprehensive Plan amendments relating to rural commercial development will provide the County's residents with more certainty, i.e., a more accurate understanding of what types of rural commercial growth would be in conformance with the state's Growth Management Act and thus permissible under the County's Comprehensive Plan; WHEREAS, the County has embarked on generating, reviewing and eventually enacting a new unified set of development regulations; WHEREAS, the Commissioners have expressed the preference that the development regulations to be generated and eventually enacted should include provisions to fully implement certain language now extant in the Comprehensive Plan, for example, the portions of the Comprehensive Plan which encourage the generation and placement of home based and small businesses, small- scale tourist and recreational opportunities and the clustering of residences; WHEREAS, the Commissioners have expressed the preference that the development regulations to be generated and eventually enacted should also include provisions for zoning based not only upon more flexible use tables but also should include, if appropriate, performance based standards; WHEREAS, the Commissioners have previously directed the planning staff ofthe County's Department of Community Development (or "DCD") to continue to move forward with the sub- " Resolution No. . 32".,DQ, Page 2 area planning process for "South" County and the continued study of provisional urban growth areas in Glen Cove and the Tri-Area regions; WHEREAS, to ask the County's DCD to devote the large amount of resources that would be needed to process a second cycle of Comprehensive Plan amendments and to perform 1) the daily work of studying and reviewing land use permits filed regularly by citizens with the DCD, 2) the study ofthe rural commercial growth language now present in the Comprehensive Plan, 3) generation of the new development regulations and 4) the area-specific analyses mandated by the Commissioners would undoubtedly be too burdensome upon the DCD staff and would surely lead to one or more of these tasks not receiving the detailed attention they deserve; WHEREAS, the County Commissioners have stated that their number one priority with respect to the Comprehensive Plan is to gain as soon as possible an accurate understanding of what types of rural commercial growth would be in conformance with the state's Growth Management Act and thus permissible under the County's Comprehensive Plan and do not wish to overly burden the staff at the County's DCD; and WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act does not require that a public entity such as Jefferson County that now plans pursuant to the Growth Management Act make available to its citizens an annual amendment process; but WHEREAS, the Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan provides for an annual comprehensive plan amendment cycle, a provision that is above and beyond what is required by the Growth Management Act. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED as follows: That Jefferson County, in order to conserve its staffing resources for other tasks deemed more urgent by the County Commissioners, will not, during the year 2000, accept from any citizen or any citizen group any proposed amendments to the County's 1998 Comprehensive Plan if those proposed amendments are related to or impact any or all ofthe following portions ofthe Comprehensive Plan as it currently exists: . Any region or section ofthe County that is presently the subject of a sub-area plan . Land Use Goal 3.0 (and its subordinate Land Use Policies), relating to rural residential development . Land Use Goal 5.0 (and its subordinate Land Use Policies), relating to the County's Rural Crossroads and potential development of "limited areas of more intense rural development. " AND IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED AS FOLLOWS . That Jefferson County, in order to conserve its staffing resources for other tasks deemed more urgent by the County Commissioners, will not, during the year 2000, accept from .. "" ,~ , . Resolution No, 32.,..00 Page 3 any citizen or any citizen group any proposed amendments to the County's 1998 Comprehensive Plan if those proposed amendments are related to or impact the provisional urban growth areas (and/or the boundaries of those urban growth areas) at the Glen Cove and Tri-Area locations; . That Jefferson County, through its Department of Community Development, shall be permitted to present (subject to the normal public, professional and peer review any Comprehensive Plan amendment must undergo) its own Plan amendments in furtherance of the policy goals laid out above, including, but not limited to, amendments which would impact or alter the process of accepting, reviewing and analyzing any future proposed amendments to the County's Comprehensive Plan; and; . That the Board of County Commissioners will further discuss and deliberate what fee should be charged to any person or entity that wishes in the future to submit a Comprehensive Plan amendment, since the cost (in staff time and the related benefits) to analyze and review each Comprehensive Plan amendment during the 1999-2000 cycle exceeded $2,250, SEAL: JEFFERSONJ:D - . ß(}A:R:IJõF- C 0 "'~~'-~-,, ,.-.." " ""', /- ..(~V'" --" , arlWojt, Chair D~o!i~ , -, , , , , /' ",/"'.""ú'-- /' >... 1- " " . . '.( , / \, - ""'~~' . ',' '~f' '? \- : -- , . \ ',,~ \ '¡"'-,..";:,:,,,>,: ;:;/,. \ .&, .' ~:--,' :.) ~ ...! ' \, ~:,(f-r~~,:';/ / ATTEST: ct~c;, £f!~ Clerk of the Board JEFFERSON COUNTY DEP. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT APPROVED AS TO FORM: D~~ez, ~ing Attomey