Title
Approval of Ordinance Adding Shoreline Master Program to Development Code and Comprehensive Plan
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Move to approve on second reading an ordinance inserting new shoreline development regulations into Title 18 of Municipal Code and new shoreline goals and policies into Natural Environment Chapter of Comprehensive Plan.
Report
Issue:
On September 24, 2015, the Director of the Washington Department of Ecology approved a new Shoreline Master Program (SMP) for the City of Olympia. This new program, which went into effect on October 8, 2015, includes new shoreline policies and development regulations. To provide ready-access by the public, staff, and others, the proposed ordinance would direct that appropriate portions of the Program as approved by Ecology be incorporated directly into the City's Comprehensive Plan and Development Code, respectively. Since October 8, 2015 staff has been administering the SMP as a standalone document.
Staff Contact:
Leonard Bauer, Deputy Director, Community Planning and Development Department, 360.753.8206
Presenter:
None; consent agenda item
Background and Analysis:
Background and analysis has not changed from first to second reading.
On September 24, 2015, an eight-year effort to comprehensively update Olympia's Shoreline Master Program (SMP) concluded with approval of the City's proposal by the Washington Department of Ecology. The new Program, substantially as proposed by the City Council in October 1, 2013, went into effect fourteen days later on October 8, 2015.
Washington's Growth Management Act provides that the Ecology-approved 'goals and policies' of local shoreline master programs are automatically an element of the local comprehensive plan and other portions are considered a part of the local development regulations. During public review of the proposed update, included in notes embedded in drafts of the ...
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