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1. 2024 Irondale and Port Hadlock UGA
(PHUGA) 2024 UGA Amendments
Continuing through 2025 Periodic
Update, Including Middle Housing
Amendments
With implementation of the sanitary
sewer in Port Hadlock UGA, updated
UGA regulations are urgently needed
for the development of affordable
housing.
Draft UDC amendments for the 2024
cycle are identified for PHUGA
topics including: development
standards, land division, building
code, and sewer ordinance.
2. 2024 UGA CP & UDC Amendments to
Modify the Port Townsend UGA
Boundary by Removing Farmland
following De-annexation and Adding the
Caswell-Brown Village (Housing
Facility) and Adjacent Public Properties
(i.e., “UGA Swap”)
Investigating the possibility of
swapping rural land with Port
Townsend UGA, and thereby
enabling urban infrastructure to
Caswell Brown Village, is critically
important to provide supportive
housing.
Meetings have been held between all
parties regarding the potential land
swap. Timing and process of the
project are currently being analyzed
and evaluated among landowners,
County, and City of Port Townsend.
3. Planning Commission UDC Rural
Housing Amendments Carried Forward
from 2023 Cycle
New development regulations
enabling congregate housing and
alternative development standards in
single-family residential zones is
urgently needed as one solution to
limited affordable housing supply.
Additional background information
has been developed. Several draft
UDC amendments for the 2024 cycle
are proposed. Additional housing
amendments are likely within the
2025 Periodic Update process.
4. Review of Land Use and Zoning in the
Jefferson County Airport Essential Public
Facility (AEPF), Particularly Airport
Overlay III, Jefferson County
International Airport (JCIA): Port of Port
Townsend
Timing is appropriate to
accommodate existing business
growth and new job creation
potential. Allowing additional zoning
on Port-owned property, adjacent to
JCIA, offers the community a path to
maintaining good-paying job growth
that is needed in Jefferson County.
Proposal continues to be analyzed
and evaluated. Draft code
amendments for Overlay III have
been proposed.