Title
Agenda Item:
Public Hearing - Shoreline Master Program
Body
Issue:
Conduct public hearing on draft Shoreline Master Program.
Committee Recommendation:
N/A
City Manager’s Recommendation:
Conduct Public Hearing on the draft Shoreline Master Program and hold the public record open for additional written comment until 5:00 PM on Tuesday February 5, 2013.
Staff Contact:
Keith Stahley, Director, Community Planning and Development Department, 360.753.8337
Presenter(s):
Keith Stahley
Background and Analysis:
At the December 18, 2012 City Council meeting staff presented a draft Shoreline Master Plan for City Council direction. Council directed staff to finalize the document for the public hearing. While staff has reformatted the document for legal purposes and continued to refine the document from an editorial perspective, staff has not made substantive changes to the SMP that was considered on December 18th. The January 22, 2013 Public Hearing draft is Attachment 1.
Staff anticipates that following the public hearing and close of the record City Council will provide further direction to staff to finalize the SMP. Attachment 2 is a proposed schedule. Following the close of the public record on February 5, 2013, staff will assemble the record for Council's review and consideration. Staff will analyze this input and provide City Council an assessment and options on how to address key issues on February 26th.
ESA, an environmental consulting firm, has completed the Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) for the proposed SMP. Their assessment is included as Attachment 3. The CIA finds that, "The cumulative actions taken over time in accordance with the City’s Draft SMP are not likely to result in a net loss of shoreline ecological functions from existing baseline conditions."
The General Assessment of Cumulative Impacts continues, "As described in the Shoreline Inventory and Characterization Reports, past and ongoing uses along Olympia’s shorelines have le...
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