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Agenda Item:
Preview of Comprehensive Plan / Planning Commission Recommended Draft on City Website
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Issue:
On March 18, 2013, the Olympia Planning Commission completed it's review of a proposed periodic update of the City's Comprehensive Plan. That recommendation is to be posted to the City website on May 20. The staff will demonstrate how to access the new documents.
Committee Recommendation:
None
City Manager’s Recommendation:
Briefing only; no action required.
Staff Contact:
Amy Buckler, Associate Planner, Community Planning and Development Department, 360.570.5847
Presenter:
Keith Stahley, Director, Community Planning and Development
Background and Analysis:
On March 26, 2013, Planning Commission Chair Jerome Parker and the Commission's staff liaison, Amy Buckler, announced to the Council that the Commission had completed its review of the Comprehensive Plan update that has been in progress since 2009. As they noted that evening, the Commission's recommendations would be posted on the City's website on May 20.
Among the items being posted are:
· Comprehensive Plan Update "Planning Commission Recommended Draft" - new version reflecting changes recommended by Planning Commission.
· Substantive Change List - a table summarizing 'substantive' differences between the current Comprehensive Plan and the Commission Draft.
· A 'track changes' version of the proposed Plan - this version reflects the differences in 'bill-format' between the version of the updated Plan presented to the Commission by staff in July of 2012 and the version recommended by the Commission.
· A 'public comment response' document - a staff-prepared summary of how the Commission recommendation addresses major topics of public comment received in 2012.
· Planning Commission Chair's transmittal memo - a May 6, 2013, letter drafted by the Chair to accompany the Commission's recommendation.
· An Addendum to the Chair's memo - also dated May 6 and summarizing Commission actions ...
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