Title
Comprehensive Plan Implementation Status Report
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee
City Manager Recommendation:
Briefing only; no action requested
Report
Issue:
In 2014, while the City Council was holding hearings and deliberating regarding the Comprehensive Plan update that was ultimately approved by the Council in December, the City staff was working with the Planning Commission to identify and bring forward a variety of development code amendments to implement the updated Plan. This briefing will provide the Land Use and Environment Committee with a status report regarding that set of amendments and future Plan-implementing activities.
Staff Contact:
Todd Stamm, Principal Planner, Community Planning and Development Department, 360.753.8597
Presenter:
Todd Stamm, Principal Planner
Background and Analysis:
Development regulations are one of the primary means by which the City of Olympia ensures that both private and public activities are consistent with the Olympia Comprehensive Plan. The City's development regulations are required by the State Growth Management Act (GMA) to be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. Revisions to the City's development regulations deemed necessary to maintain consistency with the Comprehensive Plan are required by the GMA to be adopted no later than June 30, 2016.
Following the Planning Commission's recommendation of the updated Comprehensive Plan, the Commission began reviewing potential amendments to development regulations that would implement the updated Plan. These regulations fall into three categories:
* A set of five amendments that staff recommend as necessary to maintain consistency with the updated Plan
* Another five amendments to be evaluated as soon as practical
* Other development regulation amendments to better implement the Comprehensive Plan
Included in the first two sets are changes in the City's rezone criteria, refinement o...
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