GMA UPDATE

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City of Kennewick Comprehensive Plan Update
July 26, 2005
Southridge area
10th and Keller
Center Parkway looking north
Community Planning Department City of Kennewick
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Why are we doing Comprehensive Planning under
GMA?

• One of the best planning models for cities
• Provides big picture that guides hundreds of
  everyday decisions
• Coordinates goals policies of Council with
  capital investment strategies
• Consistency requirements result in efficiency
  effective use of tax dollars
• Preserves access to grants loans

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GMA Mandated Deadline
December 1, 2006 for Kennewick and Benton County
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Why Are We Planning?
Population Increase
Washington State
1.5m
1m
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Why We Are Planning
Population Increase
Kennewick
18,848
18,255
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Kennewicks Population

• Projected population - 85,541 by 2025
• 2005 official population 60,410
• Highest population of 3 cities

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What We Have Done 2004-2005

• Adoption of Highways of Statewide Significance
  (HSS)
• Reviewed goals policies for Comprehensive Plan
  with Planning Commission
• Created CAC Critical Areas Shoreline Master
  Plan
• Adopted Subarea Plans Southridge Hansen Park
• Adoption of Public Participation Plan
• Metaline Area Neighborhood Plan
• Mineral Resource Land Inventory (2005)
• Essential Public Facilities (2005)
• Created GMA Web Site (www.ci.kennewick.wa.us/Commu
  nity_Planning/GrowthManagementAct.asp)

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What We Will Do Next

• Prepare Executive Summary Technical Document
  for the Comprehensive Plan
• Land Use Element
• Infrastructure Element
• Economic Development Element
• Urban Design Element
• Finish Critical Areas Ordinance Shoreline
  Master Plan to incorporate into Comprehensive
  Plan
• Analyze for SEPA Compliance
• Prepare Concurrency Ordinance
• Identify Process Non-Conforming Zoned Lands
• Revise Title 18 (Zoning)

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Timeframe
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What You Can Expect in the Next 1 ½ Years

• Information, material for review, more
  information, more material
• Change of Zones
• Title 18 (Zoning) revision
• Critical Areas Ordinance
• Shoreline Master Plan update
• Concurrency Ordinance
• New Comprehensive Plan document

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Questions for Council

• Joint workshops with the Planning Commission to
  review goals policies and draft work products
  early 2006?
• Areas of potential controversy or complexity
• Rezoning Ag lands
• Critical Area Ordinance
• Title 18 rewrite
• Questions for us?