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Long-Range Planning Staff

		Debra "DJ" Sessner,
			Sr. Planner
		Lynda Guernsey,
			Departmental Assistant

Follow these links for information on community planning for San Juan County's communities:
Eastsound	Lopez Village	Friday Harbor	Deer Harbor	West Sound	Orcas Village	Olga	Doe Bay

Eastsound Subarea Planning

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Follow the links above for background materials, meeting notes, draft documents and maps.

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Meetings. The Eastsound Planning and Review Committee (EPRC) has scheduled its meeting on the third Thursday of each month for the Eastsound Subarea Plan update through the end of 2002. EPRC meets at the Smuggler's Villa Resort in Eastsound at 1:00 p.m. Through these meetings, the Planning Department will work with the EPRC to prepare recommended changes to the Subarea Plan for consideration by the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC). Prior to action by the BOCC, the proposed amendments will be presented for public discussion at community meetings in Eastsound.

The purpose of the update is to evaluate and modify as appropriate the plan's goals, policies and land use plan (which was last substantially modified in 1989), improve the development review process, and bring the subarea plan into better consistency with recent amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Code for ease of administration.

Meeting dates scheduled by EPRC include the following. Click on the links for notes from past meetings:

December 5, 2002. (x kB) Capital Facilities

September 19, 2002. (x kB) Design Guidelines

August 15, 2002. (x kB) Parking

August 1, 2002. (x kB) Parking

July 18, 2002. (x kB) Circulation

June 20, 2002. (x kB) Vision, Land Use

May 9, 2002. (x kB) Issues, Problems, Opportunities

Recent Actions:

San Juan County has completed a UGA planning program for the Eastsound Urban Growth Area (UGA) to respond to boundary, density and capital facilities planning issues raised in the Growth Management Hearings Board order of May 2001. On May 3, 2002, the BOCC adopted changes to the urban growth area boundaries, permitted land uses and intensity of development, and permitted residential densities within the boundaries of the Eastsound Subarea Plan. The amendments included regulations establishing the airport overlay district for Orcas Island (Eastsound) Airport, with aircraft safety zones and FAA zones and restrictions on development within these zones. On September 9, 2003 the BOCC further amended the aircraft safety zones and their regulations. Open the following link for the Eastsound Subarea Plan Map (x kB), with airport overlay districts, as amended on September 9, 2003; also see the link for the Eastsound FAA Zones Map (x kB).

Background Information:

Population projections for Eastsound and the estimate of affordable housing needs based on Orcas Island's growth are found in the staff report on activity centers prepared for the adoption of the year 2000 amendments to the comprehensive plan.

Analysis of Proposed Urban Growth Areas (UGAs), Activity Centers, and Residential Activity Centers, (401 kB) Staff report August 9, 2000 (updated September 28, 2000)