Title
Consider the Department of Ecology's Required and Recommended Changes to the City's Shoreline Master Program
Recommended Action
City Manager Recommendation:
Consider required and recommended changes from the Department of Ecology pertaining to the City's proposed Shoreline Master Program and forward a recommendation to the City Council on appropriate next steps.
Report
Issue:
The Department of Ecology has completed its review of the City's proposed Shoreline Master Program (SMP) and have prepared a list of required changes and recommended changes. The required changes are changes that must be made to the SMP in order to be in compliance with the Shoreline Management Act and the Washington Administrative Code guidance and for the City's SMP to be approved by the Department of Ecology. Adoption of the recommended changes is discretionary, however, generally they help to provide clarity to the document.
Staff Contact:
Keith Stahley, Director Community Planning and Development Department 360.753.8227
Presenter(s):
Keith Stahley, Director Community Planning and Development Department
Todd Stamm, Principal Planner
Background and Analysis:
The City of Olympia has been engaged in the update of its Shoreline Master Program since 2007 when it received a grant from the Department of Ecology to begin the process in collaboration with the Cities of Lacey and Tumwater. Both Lacey and Tumwater have already received comments and adopted their SMPs.
The City approved it's draft SMP in October of 2013 and formally submitted the draft to the Department of Ecology in January of 2014. Over the past 18 months the Department of Ecology has reviewed the City's draft SMP in detail and developed the attached list of required changes and recommended changes. (See Attachment 1 hyperlink: Attachment B and Attachment C) These changes are generally technical in nature and have limited substantive impact on the City's proposed SMP. All documents r...
Click here for full text