Title
Annual Comprehensive Plan Amendment Schedule for 2016
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee
City Manager Recommendation:
Move to set Monday, November 2, 2015, as deadline for submitting preliminary proposals for Annual Comprehensive Plan Amendments to be considered in 2016 and direct staff to proceed with review schedule generally as outlined in staff report.
Report
Issue:
Washington's Growth Management Act provides that, with only a few specific exceptions, a city's Comprehensive Plan can be amended only once each year. Accordingly, all proposed amendments are to be collected into one review process. To that end, Olympia's code directs that the City Council shall set an annual 'due date' for proposing such amendments. The staff proposes that for 2016 amendments that deadline be 5:00 p.m., Monday, November 2, 2015.
Staff Contact:
Todd Stamm, Principal Planner, Community Planning and Development Department, 360.753.8597
Presenter(s):
None - consent item.
Background and Analysis:
Washington's Growth Management Act provides that a city like Olympia must review and evaluate its Comprehensive Plan about every eight years. Olympia concluded such a 'periodic' review in December of 2014. In addition, the Act provides that cities may, but need not, consider annual Plan amendments. Subject to specific exceptions, the Act provides that any proposed 'annual' amendments must be 'collected' into one annual review with a schedule 'broadly disseminated' to the public. (RCW 36.70A.130)
Chapter 18.59 of the Municipal Code outlines Olympia's Annual Comprehensive Plan Amendment process. Proposed amendments may be submitted at any time. However, so that proposals are collected into an annual set, the code provides that the City Council shall set an annual submittal deadline. This deadline has varied, but most often it has been in the first week of November.
The subsequent review process includes a prelimina...
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