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Goals, Objectives,
Land Use Plans
for Urban Growth Areas (UGAs), Villages and Hamlets
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Community
planning
for the County's Urban Growth Areas, and Village and Hamlet Activity
Centers was an important component of the work program adopted
with the October, 2000 amendments to the County's Comprehensive
Plan. This planning process resumed following resolution of many
issues regarding the October, 2000 amendments that were appealed
to the Growth Management Hearings Board.
For current
planning for the UGAs, click on the Eastsound, Lopez Village,
or Friday Harbor links, above.
Planning
for the Village and Hamlet Activity centers resumed in 2002 and
2003 with Community meetings to develop draft plans. To review
the draft documents that have been developed for each of the
County's population centers, follow the links to each community
(above).
Activity
center planning was again suspended in late 2003 after the number
of long-range planning staffpersons was reduced from 3 to 1.
The plans could
be completed in 2004 with public hearing and adoption; however,
the likelihood of this and its timing will depend on the availability
of staff to complete the community planning for each activity
center, and on competition from other work program items.
Development
projections
for each of the county's population centers were prepared for
the year 2000 update of the comprehensive plan. The projections
and the assumptions on which they were based are found in the
September 2000 staff report Analysis of Proposed Urban Growth Areas (UGAs),
Activity Centers, and Residential Activity Centers, (401 kB).
For information
on the planning process in 1998–2000 that resulted in the
designation and adoption of boundaries for these communities,
follow this link to the Community
Planning History page.
Interim
Development Regulations for Village & Hamlet Activity Centers.
During
the community planning process, interim development regulations
are in effect for villages and hamlets; see SJCC 18.30.200 (15 kB).
Purpose
of Community Planning
The Official
Maps do not at present identify the land-use district boundaries
for Lopez Village or for village and hamlet activity centers.
While maximum residential densities were established for these
areas by the October 2000 comprehensive plan amendments, land-use
district boundaries still need to be developed for these villages
and hamlets in accordance with community and countywide goals
and objectives.
The community
planning process involves working with each community to identify
local goals and prepare a local land-use plan for adoption by
the Board of County Commissioners. Community plans will:
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Provide land-use
controls for current uses and activities. |
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Provide for
a reasonable level of new development, consistent both with the
policies of the Comprehensive Plan and with the limitations that
the Growth Management Act places on Urban Growth Areas and "limited
Areas of More Intensive Rural Development" (LAMIRDs). |
For more
information on the community planning process and objectives
for community planning, follow this link to the Community
Planning Background page.
For more
information on the planning process that resulted in the current
boundaries and densities for San Juan County's communities, follow
this link to the Community
Planning History page.
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