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Agenda Item:
Initial Shoreline Master Program (SMP) Deliberations -- Questions and Information Needs
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Issue:
What questions and information needs to do you have for response at the October 16 Council meeting or another appropriate venue?
City Manager’s Recommendation:
Provide staff with feedback and direction.
Staff Contact:
Keith Stahley, Director, Community Planning and Development Department, 360.753.8227
Presenter(s):
Keith Stahley, Director, Community Planning and Development
Background and Analysis:
City Council has now held a joint meeting with the Planning Commission and conducted four workshop meetings to help them develop a better understanding of the record, the vision and the issues that that various interests in the community have for the shoreline and with the draft Shoreline Master Program updates that have been proposed by staff and the Plannning Commission. These meetings and allowed community members, Department of Ecology, non-governmental interest groups and governmental interests to communicate directly with City Council.
City Council also has access to the volumious record generated by the Planning Commission through its public hearings and deliberations.
City staff has provided City Council with additional information about the shoreline upland characteristics and impacts of the staff and Planning Commission SMP Updates in the form of PowerPoint Presentations, a spread sheet that details property characteristics along the shoreline and how it is impacted by the proposed regulatory approaches as well as a map of all shoreline ownership interests.
All of this information forms a rich source for City Council from which to begin its deliberative process.
Options:
Consider information and feedback provided through the Planning Commission record, workshop meetings and staff information. Identify further information needs and questions for response at Council's October 16 meeting or other appropriate venues.
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