RZ22-00001_DeGoede_RezoneApplication_LetterofCompleteness
January 28, 2022 De Goede Bulb Farm, Inc c/o Bob De Goede PO Box 228 Mossyrock, WA 98564 RE: Notice of Complete Application and Procedures for Amending the Comprehensive Plan Dear Mr. De Goede, On December 31, 2021, the Lewis County Department of Community Development received your petition for designating Parcel 028519065005, located at 0 Mossyrock Road, as a RDD-5 (rural development district, 1 unity per 5 acres) per Lewis County Code (LCC) 17.05.040(e) and 17.12 (Ordinance No. 1330, Attached). The department has reviewed your application and deem it complete to place it on the 2022 Comprehensive Plan Amendment docket. To assist you in understanding this process, I am outlining the steps that will be necessary for the county to review your application from this point forward. Please keep in mind that your petition is a site specific rezone that, if approved, will amend the future land use maps within the Lewis County Comprehensive. This map change will remove the current designation of this parcel as agricultural on Map LU-3 and change it to other rural residential on Map LU-2. This action allows the county to designate the parcel as RDD-5 on the county’s zoning map. The Growth Management Act requires consistency between the future land use maps in the plan and the county’s zoning map. The specific processes for amending the county’s comprehensive plan falls under 17.12 LCC. These steps include: 1. Within fourteen (14) days from the issuance of the Determination of Complete
Application, the county will issue a Notice of Application.
a. The county will send copies of the Notice of Application to you, your representatives,
owners of property within ¼ mile of the parcel boundaries, county departments,
agencies with jurisdiction (including tribal governments), community groups or local
governments that the county identifies as having an interest in the proposal, and any
other person requesting in writing a copy of the notice.
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b. The Notice of Application also will require publication in the county’s official
newspaper of record and posting on the property.
2. Comments on the application are due to Lewis County Community Development based
on the date in the Notice of Application. Comments received by Lewis County will be
provided to you and your representative. All individuals and groups whom provide
comments become parties of record.
3. After you receive comments, you may choose to amend your application to address
some or all of the comments. You must let Lewis County Community Development
know, in writing, of your intent to amend your application within fourteen (14) days of
receiving the comments. If you do not respond within fourteen (14) days, it is assumed
that you are not amending your application and the process will continue.
a. If you amend your application, a new Notice of Application is sent and posted.
4. If there are no further amendments to the application, Lewis County will make a SEPA
Determination and schedule a workshop with the Lewis County Planning Commission.
Please note that if the SEPA threshold decision requires further environmental analysis or
an Environmental Impact Statement, the comprehensive plan amendment process halts
until that process is complete.
5. At the Planning Commission workshop county staff will present the proposal to the
commissioners, including comments received on the Notice of Application and the
SEPA Determination.
a. The workshop is not a public hearing, although the Planning Commission may
choose to allow you, your representatives, or the public to comment on the
materials presented by county staff.
b. If the Planning Commission deems it necessary, they may hold additional
workshops on the proposal.
6. Once the Planning Commission determines it needs no further workshops on the
proposal, it will schedule a date for a public hearing. The county will then publish and
circulate a Notice of Public Hearing at least fifteen (15) days before the hearing. The
county also will circulate the proposal for review by the Washington State Department of
Commerce, the parties of record and the public. The proposal will include copies of the
application and attachments, materials prepared by the county, and all comments
received up to that date.
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7. Written testimony on the proposal will be due to the Planning Commission by 5:00pm
on the date of the public hearing.
8. When the chair of the Planning Commission convenes the public hearing, county staff
will provide a presentation on the proposal including written testimony received by
5:00pm that day. Planning Commission members may ask questions of staff at this time.
The chair will then open the hearing to oral testimony from any person in attendance,
including you and your project representatives. Members of the commission may
continue to ask questions of any speaker. After conclusion of public testimony, the
Planning Commission Chair may close the public hearing to new testimony and begin
deliberations on the proposed amendment. Alternatively, the Planning Commission has
the option of continuing the public hearing to another date to provide more time for
testimony and deliberations.
9. The final step for the Planning Commission is to prepare a recommendation on the
proposal for consideration by Board of County Commissioners. At the completion of its
deliberations, the commission shall vote to recommend adopting, not adopting, or
amending the proposal, plan amendments or development regulations in relationship to
the approval criteria under LCC 17.12.100.
10. Upon receipt of the Planning Commission recommendation, the Board of County
Commissioners may hold a public hearing to consider approving the proposal or they
may remand the proposal back to the Planning Commission for further consideration. If
the Board approves the proposal for amending the comprehensive plan, it will do so by
ordinance. Generally, the Board’s final action will occur by the end of November.
11. County staff will then submit the final decision to the Department of Commerce. There
are two appeal periods associated with comprehensive plan map and zone map
amendments. There is a procedural appeal period of 21 days pursuant to RCW
36.70C.040(3) available to parties with standing under RCW 36.70C.060. There is a
substantive appeal period of 60 days pursuant to RCW 36.70A.290 available to any party
that has standing under RCW 36.70A.280(2). If there is no appeal, the decision is final.
If you have any questions regarding these procedures, please free to contact me. Sincerely, Mindy Brooks, Senior Long Range Planner