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CITY OF GRAND COULEE
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
Prepared by:
The Grand Coulee Planning Commission
Ted Felt, Chairman
Diane Canady, Secretary
Jerry Beierman
Winfield Davidson
Clifford Hart
Jesse Benton
With the Assistance of:
Nancy Mitchell - City Clerk/Treasurer
Kenneth P. Hamm, Jr. - Ramm Associates, Inc.*
Grant County Planning Department**
March 1994
*Provided information to complete Utilities and Capital Facilities Elements, and formatting of entire Comprehensive Plan Document
**Provided all information for contents of the Comprehensive Plan and Elements on Housing, Transportation, Land Use, Maps, and Executive Summary.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page No.
INTRODUCTION 1
1.0Why the City of Grand Coulee is Planning 1
2.0Purpose of the Comprehensive Plan 2
3.0Community Involvement and Jurisdictional Coordination 3
4.0Vision Statement 4
PLAN IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING 5
DEFINITIONS 7
CONSISTENCY WITH STATE GROWTH MANAGEMENT GOALS 15
LAND USE ELEMENT L-1
CAPITAL FACILITIES ELEMENT CF-1
TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT T-1
HOUSING ELEMENT H-1
UTILITIES U-1
APPENDICES
Appendix A -Grant County Planned Growth Committee:
County-wide Planning Policies
Appendix B -Grand Coulee Dam Area Visioning Survey Analysis
Appendix C -City of Grand Coulee Resource Lands and
Critical Areas Development Ordinance No. 755
Appendix D -Grand Coulee Six-Year Capital Improvement Plan
Appendix E -Grand Coulee Rural City Six-Year Transportation Program
Appendix F -Grand Coulee Existing Roadway Inventory
INTRODUCTION
This comprehensive plan was prepared by the City of Grand Coulee in accordance with Section 36.70A.070 of the Growth Management Act to address growth issues in the City of Grand Coulee and its adjacent urban growth areas. It represents the community's policy plan for growth over the next 20 years. The introductory section contains the following:
Why the City of Grand Coulee is Planning
Purpose of the Comprehensive Plan
Community Involvement and Inter-Jurisdictional Coordination
Vision Statement for the City of Grand Coulee
1.0 WHY THE CITY OF GRAND COULEE IS PLANNING
To Implement the Growth Management Act from the `Bottom Up': The Growth Management Act (GMA) invests local government with significant decision-making power. The City of Grand Coulee has been directed to identify the concerns and goals of the community, to prioritize these goals, and to plan for how these goals will be achieved. While the Act requires the City to complete several planning tasks, the outcome of the planning effort is in the hands of the City. Therefore, the City of Grand Coulee has created a comprehensive plan that establishes a clear intent and policy base which can be used to develop and interpret local regulations.
To Maintain Local Decision Making Power: While the City of Grand Coulee is experiencing minimal pressures from growth within its boundaries, it has been affected by growth occurring from the more urbanized areas in the state and from other states. An indication of that growth is the increased demand for public facilities such as traffic circulation and fire protection. Also, an increasing number of policy decisions made at the federal, state, and regional level are influencing the quality of life in Grand Coulee. The City believes that the most effective way to maintain local control is to become more actively involved in planning. By clearly articulating a plan for the future of the community, the City is informed about the implications of its policy decisions, and is able to express community concerns to regional, state and federal entities. In addition, the Growth Management Act requires that state agencies must comply with local comprehensive plans and development regulations. Therefore, the comprehen-sive plan and the implementing regulations allow the City to assert local control over certain issues with the assurance that state agencies will respect their decisions in a manner which will reinforce the desired character, scale, and identity of the City.
To Promote Desired Changes: Grand Coulee has always been an advocate for economic development and growth. However, this allowed some developers and special interests outside of the community to influence the City. The comprehensive plan consists of an evaluating existing infrastructure capacity with current demand andproject capacity supply in order to direct future growth. The City can then establish appropriate policies defining clear direction for future development to ensure that it meets the City's standards.
Even though the City of Grand Coulee is not growing quickly, change is occurring. The City has chosen to take a proactive role in attracting developments to meet the needs of the citizens, prioritizing alternative uses of land and public resources, and identifying in explicit terms the impact proposed developments will have on the community. Recognition of the type of changes that are occurring and readiness to make decisions in light of such changes will allow the City to take advantage of positive opportunities and to address the effects on the quality of life.
To Address Changes in Community Needs: The City of Grand Coulee is also updating its comprehensive plan to address dramatic changes since the previous plan was adopted. The balance between the number of jobs and the number of housing units has shifted as the number of two-income families has increased. Concerns about environmental quality have also created a change in traditional land use patterns as well as a preference for alternatives to the automobile. Finally, the economy has shifted away from land intensive industries to light manufacturing and service industries that are more compatible with other land uses.
The City has undertaken an extensive public participation process to ensure the vision of the community expressed in the comprehensive plan reflects the needs and desires of the local population. The City has identified through the visioning process the following goals which provided a basis for planning:
Determine what public services the City wants to provide and at what level of service it is willing to provide these services;
Determine how to finance for these public services;
Determine how to acquire and spend public resources;
Anticipate future expenditures;
Build on current stewardship of land;
Maintain quality of life;
Maintain infrastructure;
Build on and take full advantage of existing assets; and
Reduce land use conflicts and haphazard development;
2.0 PURPOSE OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
This comprehensive plan was developed in accordance with Section 36.70A.070 of the Growth Management Act to address growth issues in the City of Grand Coulee and its adjacent Urban Growth Areas. It represents the community's policy plan for growth over the next 20 years. The City of Grand Coulee is interdependent with many other communities. In such circumstances, the long- term planning for the Cityneeds to be adaptable to unexpected or rapid changes. Therefore, rather than simply prioritizing actions, this plan assists in the management of the City by providing policies to guide decision-making. The plan includes the following elements:
Land Use
Housing
Transportation
Capital Facilities
Utilities
County-Wide Planning Policies: The County-Wide Planning Policies (see Appendix A) provided guidance in the planning process and are consistent with the comprehensive plan. Furthermore, all of the planning elements have been integrated into a single internally consistent plan. Each element reflects the integration of the County-wide Planning Policies. The policies within each element are the result of an iterative process of balancing the goals in that element. The result is a plan containing elements focused on specific issues, but framed within a more general context. The City of Grand Coulee believes the comprehensive plan as a whole will be effective in working toward community goals in an economically feasible manner.
3.0 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND JURISDICTIONAL COORDINATION
In the initial phases of the planning process, the City conducted several public meetings and workshops for the purposes of obtaining input from the community. The main element of these meetings was to develop the Vision Statement and community sentiment. In addition to the meetings, the City discussed community concerns regarding social, economic, and physical conditions, as well as implementation priorities.
Another method used to receive community input was the questionnaire mailed to all residents of the City of Grand Coulee and the proposed urban growth areas. A statistically significant number of surveys was returned (18%), allowing an analysis that is accurate within a 5% margin of error. The survey analysis (see Appendix B) played a major role in identifying and articulating the community's vision and goals for the future.
The Planning Commission conducted numerous public meetings prior to holding a public hearing to recommend adoption of the plan to the City Council. The City Council subsequently conducted two public meetings to receive any additional input prior to final plan adoption.
As part of these Planning Commission and City Council public meetings and public hearings, the comprehensive plan was also being adopted according to the requirements under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). It was established during the hearings that the comprehensive plan was deemed a Determination ofSignificance and would require and be subject to the requirements for a Non-project Environmental Impact Statement.
4.0 VISION STATEMENT
"The Vision of Grand Coulee, a friendly, scenic, small community, is to provide for the health, safety, and well-being of its citizens and guests through the wise management of its diverse resources."
The over-arching theme of the Vision Statement is that the City of Grand Coulee would like to preserve its character and identity -- the "small town atmosphere". This goal can be accomplished by evaluating that all policies and actions with this consideration: is this appropriate for our community? The six goals identified below are deemed to be essential in maintaining a satisfactory quality of life for Grand Coulee. These goals will endure as the comprehensive plan is implemented, specific measurable tasks are accomplished, and changes occur. As the comprehensive plan is updated to account for changing conditions and completion of the policies or objectives identified in each element, the goals in the Vision Statement will provide direction for such revisions.
The City of Grand Coulee should provide an effective stewardship of the environment to protect critical areas, maintain water quality, and conserve land, air, water, and energy resources by taking advantage of existing plans or ongoing planning activities such as watershed management plans, drainage basin plans, other regional resource protection plans.
The City of Grand Coulee should encourage changes that promote livability, pedestrian orientation, protection of cultural resources and high quality design, as well as limit stress factors such as noise pollution and traffic congestion. In addition, the City of Grand Coulee should identify the responsibilities of public and private agents at the local and regional level for providing emergency and social services.
The City of Grand Coulee should use local human resources whenever possible to encourage local involvement in community actions and to enhance community pride. This should include continued encouragement of public and private involvement in community traditions, as well as, encouragement of volunteerism and activism.
The City of Grand Coulee should encourage the local economy by providing a predictable development atmosphere, emphasize diversity in the range of goods and services, and ensure that as the economy changes employment opportunities are balanced with a range of housing opportunities.
The City of Grand Coulee should enhance the opportunities for recreational and cultural activities, providing a range of activities for all ages.
PLAN IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING
This section outlines the plan implementation and monitoring procedures developed to measure progress in implementing the goals, objectives and policies in the City of Grand Coulee's Comprehensive Plan. This process also prepares the City for updates in the future. These procedures address:
Citizen participation in the process;
Updating appropriate base-line data and measurable objectives to be accomplished in the first six-year period of the plan, and for the long-term period;
™1_Accomplishments in the first ten-year period, describing the degree to which the goals, objectives and policies have been successively reached;
Obstacles or problems which resulted in the under-achievement of goals, objectives and policies;
New or modified goals, objectives and policies needed to address and correct discovered problems; and
A means of ensuring a continuous monitoring and evaluation of the plan during the ten-year period.
Although adopted by ordinance, a comprehensive plan has traditionally been a policy document with implementation through land development regulations and other ordinances. However, the Growth Management Act encourages a variety of innovative implementation methods, regulatory and non-regulatory, which should be considered. The City will continue its public education program following plan adoption in order to inform the entire community about the rationale and goals of the plan, as well as the changes that will take place in the City because of the plan's implementation. Grand Coulee believes that broad support for the plan is crucial for effective implementation.
Existing development regulations must be updated to be consistent with the plan within one year of plan adoption. In reviewing regulations for consistency, the City should ensure that the development patterns suggested in the plan are encouraged. In addition to the new development regulations identified in the land use plan, other regulations will be enacted as necessary to implement the land use plan.
Planning is an ongoing process, and improved data or changing circumstances will require amendment to the comprehensive plan. In particular, the plan will be reviewed once a year and updated as necessary to reflect revisions to the Office of Financial Management population estimate and revisions to the Capital Facilities Plan. The update will also address any specific concerns, clarify inconsistencies that were identified during the year, and review the adequacy of current service standards. In addition, every ten years the City will review the densities permitted and the usage of the land within the Urban Growth Boundary.
The community's vision and quality of life goals provide long-range guidance for the City. To maintain consistency and allow sufficient time for decisions to take effect, these general guidelines should not be changed more than every five years. However, as specific objectives or policy are achieved, revision of the plan in each element may be required to continue progress toward the overall goals.
Amendments to the comprehensive plan can be requested by the City Council, Planning Commission, or by any affected citizen or property owner. However, the plan may not be amended more than once a year, and therefore, requests for amendment can be deferred to the time of the annual public hearing. The Planning Commission shall review the comprehensive plan and propose any needed amendment. A public hearing will then be held to solicit comment. After further review a formal recommendation will be made to the City Council. The Council will hold a public hearing, make modifications if necessary, and adopt the proposed amendment to the comprehensive plan. By reviewing and updating the plan on a regular basis, Grand Coulee can rely on this document in decision making, and can maintain public interest and support of the planning process.
DEFINITIONS
Adequate Capital Facilities: Means facilities which have the capacity to serve development without decreasing levels of service below locally established minimums.
Agricultural Land: Means land primarily devoted to the commercial production of horticultural, viticultural, floricultural, dairy, apiary, vegetable, or animal products or of berries, grain, hay, straw, turf, seed, Christmas trees not subject to the excise tax imposed by RCW 84.33.l00 through 84.33.140, or livestock and that has long-term commercial significance for agricultural production.
Arterial: A roadway providing movement along major significant corridors of traffic flow. Traffic volumes, speeds and trip lengths are high, usually greater than those associated with other roadways.
Available Capital Facilities: Means that facilities or services are in place or that a financial commitment is in place to provide the facilities or services within a specified time. In the case of transportation, the specified time is six years from the time of development.
Capacity: The measure of the ability to provide a level of service on a public facility.
Capital Budget: Means the portion of each local government's budget which reflects capital improvements for a fiscal year.
Capital Improvement: Means physical assets constructed or purchased to provide, improve or replace a public facility and which are large scale and high in cost. The cost of a capital improvement is generally non-recurring and may require multi-year financing.
Collector: A roadway providing service which is of relatively moderate traffic volume, moderate trip length and moderate operating speed. Collector roads collect and distribute traffic between local roads and arterial roads.
Commercial Uses: Activities within land areas which are predominantly connected with the sale, rental, or distribution of products or the performance of services.
Comprehensive Plan: Means a generalized coordinated land use policy statement of the governing body of a county or City that is adopted pursuant to this chapter.
Concurrency: Means that adequate capital facilities are available when the impacts of development occur. This definition includes the two concepts of "adequate capital facilities" and "available capital facilities" defined above.
Consistency: Means that no feature of a plan or regulation is incompatible with any other feature of a plan or regulation. Consistency is indicative of a capacity for orderly integration or operation with other elements in a system.
Coordination: Means consultation and cooperation among jurisdictions.
Contiguous Development: Means development of areas immediately adjacent to one another.
County-wide Planning Policies: Refers to the document entitled "Final Adopted Policies of the Grant County Planned Growth Committee, 5-6-93." This document is included as Appendix A to this Comprehensive Plan.
Critical Areas: Include the following areas and ecosystems: (a) Wetlands; (b) areas with a critical recharging effect on aquifers used for potable water; (c) fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas; (d) frequently flooded areas; and (e) geologically hazardous areas.
Cultural Resources: Are elements of the physical environment that are evidence of human activity and occupation. Cultural resource include: (a) historic resources which are elements of the built environment typically fifty years of age and older, and may be buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts; (b) archaeological resources consist of remains of the human environment at or below the ground surface such as habitation sites; and (c) traditional cultural properties are places or sites of human activities which are of significance to the traditions or ceremonies of a culture. Traditional cultural properties do not necessarily have a manmade component and may consist of an entirely natural setting.
Density: A measure of the intensity of development, generally expressed in terms of dwelling units per acre. Can also be expressed in terms of population density (i.e., people per acre). Useful for establishing a balance between potential local service use and service capacities.
Domestic Water System: Means any system providing a supply of potable water for the intended use of a development which is deemed adequate pursuant to RCW 19.27.097.
Financial Commitment: Means that sources of public or private funds or combinations thereof have been identified which will be sufficient to finance capital facilities necessary to support development and that there is assurance that such funds will be timely put to that end.
Forest Land: Means land primarily useful for growing trees, including Christmas trees subject to the excise tax imposed under RCW 84.33.100 through 84.33.140, forcommercial purposes, and that has long-term commercial significance for growing trees commercially.
Geologically Hazardous Areas: Means areas that because of their susceptibility to erosion, sliding, earthquake, or other geological events, are not suited to the siting of commercial, residential, or industrial development consistent with public health or safety concerns.
Goal: Means the long-term end toward which programs or activities are ultimately directed.
Growth Management: A method to guide development in order to minimize adverse environmental and fiscal impacts and maximize the health, safety, and welfare benefits to the residents of the community.
Household: A household includes all the persons who occupy a group of rooms or a single room which constitutes a housing unit.
Impact Fee: A fee levied by a local government on new development so that the new development pays its proportionate share of the cost of new or expanded facilities required to service that development.
Industrial Uses: The activities predominantly connected with manufacturing, assembly, processing, or storage of products.
Infrastructure: Means those man-made structures which serve the common needs of the population, such as: sewage disposal systems, potable water wells serving a system, solid waste disposal sites or retention areas, stormwater systems, utilities, bridges and roadways.
Intensity: A measure of land uses activity based on density, use, mass, size and impact.
Land Development Regulations: Means any controls placed on development or land use activities by a county or city, including, but not limited to, zoning ordinances, subdivision ordinances, rezoning, building construction, sign regulations, binding site plan ordinances or any other regulations controlling the development of land.
Level of Service (LOS): An indicator of the extent or degree of service provided by, or proposed to be provided by, a facility based on and related to the operational characteristics of the facility. LOS means an established minimum capacity of capital facilities or services provided by capital facilities that must be provided per unit of demand or other appropriate measure of need.
Local Road: A roadway providing service which is of relatively low traffic volume, short average trip length or minimal through traffic movements.
Long-term Commercial Significance: Includes the growing capacity, productivity, and soil composition of the land for long-term commercial production, in consideration with the land's proximity to population areas, and the possibility of more intense uses of the land.
Manufactured Housing: Means a manufactured building or major portion of a building designed for long-term residential use. It is designed and constructed for transportation to a site for installation and occupancy when connected to required utilities.
Master Planned Resort: Means a self-contained and fully integrated planned unit development, in a setting of significant natural amenities, with primary focus on destination resort facilities consisting of short-term visitor accommodations associated with a range of developed on-site indoor or outdoor recreational facilities.
Minerals: Include gravel, sand, and valuable metallic substances.
Mobile Home: A single portable manufactured housing unit, or a combination of two or more such units connected on-site, that is:
a.designed to be used for living, sleeping, sanitation, cooking, and eating purposes by one family only and containing independent kitchen, sanitary, and sleeping facilities;
b.designed so that each housing unit can be transported on its own chassis;
c.placed on a temporary or semi-permanent foundation; and
d.is over thirty-two feet in length and over eight feet in width.
Multi-Family Housing: As used in this plan, multi-family housing is all housing which is designed to accommodate three or more households.
Natural Resource Lands: Means agricultural, forest and mineral resource lands which have long-term commercial significance.
New Fully Contained Community: Is a development proposed for location outside of the initially designated urban growth areas which is characterized by urban densities, uses and services.
Objective: Means a specific, measurable, intermediate end that is achievable and marks progress toward a goal.
Open Space: Underdeveloped land that serves a functional role in the life of the community. This term is subdivided into the following:
a.Pastoral or recreational open space area areas that serve active or passive recreation needs, (e.g., federal, state, regional and local parks, forests, historic sites, etc).
b.Utilitarian open space are those areas not suitable for residential or other development due to the existence of hazardous and/or environmentally sensitive conditions, (e.g., critical areas, airport flight zones, wellfields, etc). This category is sometimes referred to as "health and safety" open space.
c.Corridor or linear open space are areas through which people travel, and which may also serve an aesthetic or leisure purpose. For example, an interstate highway may connect point A to Point B, but may also offer an enjoyable pleasure drive for the family. This open space is also significant in its ability to connect one residential or leisure area with another.
Overriding Public Interest: When this term is used, i.e., public interest, concern or objective, shall be determined by a majority vote of the City Council.
Owner: Any person or entity, including a cooperative or a public housing authority (PHA), having the legal rights to sell, lease, or sublease any form of real property.
Planning Period: Means the 20-year period following the adoption of a comprehensive plan or such longer period as may have been selected as the initial planning horizon by the planning jurisdiction.
Policy: Means the way in which programs and activities are conducted to achieve an identified goal.
Public Facilities: Include streets, roads, highways, sidewalks, street and road lighting systems, traffic signals, domestic water systems, storm and sanitary sewer systems, parks and recreational facilities, and schools. These physical structures are owned or operated by a government entity which provides or supports a public service.
Public Services: Include fire protection and suppression, law enforcement, public health, education, recreation, environmental protection, and other governmental services.
Regional Transportation Plan: Means the transportation plan for the regionally designated transportation system which is produced by the Regional Transportation Planning Organization.
Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO): Means the voluntary organization conforming to RCW 47.80.020, consisting of local governments within a region containing one or more counties which have common transportation interests.
Resident Population: Means inhabitants counted in the same manner utilized by the US Bureau of the Census, in the category of total population. Resident population does not include seasonal population.
Right-of-way: Land in which the state, a county, or a municipality owns the fee simple title or has an easement dedicated or required for a transportation or utility use.
Rural Lands: Means all lands which are not within an urban growth area and are not designated as natural resource lands having long-term commercial significance for production of agricultural products, timber, or for the extraction of minerals.
Sanitary Sewer Systems: Means all facilities, including approved on-site disposal facilities, used in the collection, transmission, storage, treatment or discharge of any waterborne waste, whether domestic in origin or a combination of domestic, commercial or industrial waste.
Shall: Means a directive or requirement.
Should: Means an expectation.
Single-Family Housing: As used in this plan, a single-family unit is a detached housing unit designed for occupancy by not more than one household. This definition does not include manufactured housing, which are treated as a separate category.
Solid Waste Handling Facility: Means any facility for the transfer or ultimate disposal of solid waste, including land fills and municipal incinerators.
Transportation Facilities: Includes capital facilities related to air, water or land transportation.
Transportation Level of Service Standards: Means a measure which describes the operational condition of the travel stream, usually in terms of speed and travel time, freedom to maneuver, traffic interruptions, comfort, convenience and safety.
Transportation System Management (TSM): Means low capital expenditures to increase the capacity of the transportation network. TSM strategies include but are not limited to signalization, channelization, and bus turn-outs.
Transportation Demand Management Strategies (TDM): Means strategies aimed at changing travel behavior rather than at expanding the transportation network to meet travel demand. Such strategies can include the promotion of work hour changes, ride-sharing options, parking policies, and telecommuting.
Urban Growth: Refers to growth that makes intensive use of land for the location ofbuildings, structures, and impermeable surfaces to such a degree as to be incompatible with the primary use of such land for the production of food, other agricultural products, or fiber, or the extraction of mineral resources. When allowed to spread over wide areas, urban growth typically requires urban governmental services. "Characterized by urban growth" refers to land having urban growth located on it, or to land located in relationship to an area with urban growth on it as to be appropriate for urban growth.
Urban Growth Area: Means those areas designated by a county pursuant to RCW 36.70A.110.
Urban Governmental Services: Includes those governmental services historically and typically delivered by cities, and include storm and sanitary sewer systems, domestic water systems, street cleaning services, fire and police protection services, public transit services, and other public utilities associated with urban areas and normally not associated with non urban areas.
Utilities: Means facilities serving the public by means of a network of wires or pipes, and structures ancillary thereto. Included are systems for the delivery of natural gas, electricity, telecommunications services, and water and for the disposal of sewage.
Vacant/Underdeveloped Lands: May suggest the following: a) a site which has not been developed with either buildings or capital facility improvements (vacant land); b) has a building improvement value of less than $500 (undeveloped land); c) a site within an existing urbanized area that may have capital facilities available to the site creating infill development; d) a site which is occupied by a use consistent with the zoning but contains enough land to be further subdivided without needing a rezone (partially-used); and e) a site which has been developed with both a structure and capital facilities and is zoned for more intensive use than that which occupies the site (under-utilized).
Visioning: Means a process of citizen involvement to determine values and ideals for the future of a community and to transform those values and ideals into manageable and feasible community goals.
Wetland: Means areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas. Wetlands do not include those artificial wetlands intentionally created from non-wetland sites, including, but not limited to, irrigation and drainage ditches, grass-lined swales, canals, detention facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, farm ponds, and landscape amenities. However, wetlands may include those artificial wetlands intentionally created from non-wetland areas created to mitigate conversionof wetlands, if permitted by the County or City.
Zoning: The demarcation of an area by ordinance (text and map) into zones and the establishment of regulations to govern the uses within those zones (commercial, industrial, residential) and the regulation (e.g. location, bulk, height, shape, and coverage) of structures within each zone.
CONSISTENCY WITH
STATE GROWTH MANAGEMENT GOALS
The data used to develop this Comprehensive Plan is, to the greatest extent possible, the best available data. The City has also coordinated its plan with that of adjacent jurisdictions according to the County-wide Planning Policies (see Appendix A) in order to achieve compatibility and consistency. In addition, the comprehensive plan has considered the Growth Management Act's thirteen goal areas and has incorporated them where applicable.
Urban Growth
Encourage development in urban areas where adequate public facilities and services exist or can be provided in an efficient manner.
Reduce Sprawl
Reduce the inappropriate conversion of undeveloped land into sprawling, low-density development.
Transportation
Encourage efficient multi-modal transportation systems that are based on regional priorities and coordinated with County and City comprehensive plans.
Housing
Encourage the availability of affordable housing to all economic segments of the population of this state, promote a variety of residential densities and housing types, and encourage preservation of existing housing.
Economic Development
Encourage economic development throughout the state that is consistent with adopted comprehensive plans, promote economic opportunity for all citizens of this state, especially for unemployed and for disadvantaged persons, and encourage growth, all within the capacities of the state's natural resources, public services, and public facilities.
Property Rights
Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation having been made. The property rights of landowners shall be protected from arbitrary and discriminatory actions.
Permits
Applications for both state and local government permits should be processed in a timely and fair manner to ensure predictability.
Natural Resource Industries
Maintain and enhance natural resource-based industries, including productive timber, agricultural, and fisheries industries.
Open Space and Recreation
Encourage the retention of open space and development of recreational opportunities, conserve fish and wildlife habitat, increase access to natural resource lands and water, and develop parks.
Environment
Protect the environment and enhance the state's high quality of life, including air and water quality, and the availability of water.
Citizen Participation and Coordination
Encourage the involvement of citizens in the planning process and ensure coordination between communities and jurisdictions to reconcile conflicts.
Public Facilities and Services
Ensure that those public facilities and services necessary to support development shall be adequate to serve the development at the time the development is available for occupancy and use without decreasing current service levels below locally established minimum standards.
Historic Preservation
Identify and encourage the preservation of lands, sites, and structures, that have historical or archaeological significance.