2023-06-07_BOCC_WedWorkshop_PopulationHousingCommunity Development 2025 NE Kresky Ave Chehalis, WA 98532 Phone: (360) 740-1146
Lewis County Planning Comprehensive Plan Periodic Update
June 7, 2023
Agenda
1.Comprehensive Plans Period Update
2.2045 Population Allocations
3.2045 Housing Allocations
BOCC – Workshop 2June 7, 2023
June 7, 2023
Overview
BOCC - Workshop 3
Growth
Management
Act
Lewis County
Comprehensive
Plan
Lewis County
Shoreline Master
Program
Countywide
Planning Policies
Urban Growth
Areas
Title 17.38 Critical
Areas
Title 15.35 Flood
Damage Prevention
Title 17 Land Use
and Development
Regulations
Title 16
Subdivisions
Zoning Maps
Shoreline
Management
Act
June 7, 2023
Periodic Update
BOCC - Workshop 4
•Task 1 – Population and Housing Allocations
•Task 2: Scoping
•Task 3: Existing Conditions, Including Capital Facilities
•Task 4: Public Engagement
•Task 5: Draft Comprehensive Plan Goals and Policies
•Task 6: Packwood Subarea Plan
•Task 7: Onalaska Subarea Plan Update
•Task 8: Urban Growth Areas
•Task 9: SEPA
•Task 10: Final Comprehensive Plan Goals and Policies
Then … Tasks 11 – 14 zoning maps and development regulations
June 7, 2023
Population Allocations
BOCC - Workshop 5
•Office of Financial Management (OFM) 20-year forecast\
•High, medium, low – medium is most likely
•County allocates to cities
•Coordinated through Planned Growth Committee
•Recommendation to Planning Commission
•Decision by BOCC
June 7, 2023
Planned Growth Committee
BOCC - Workshop 6
•Mayor (or designee) of each city and Chair of BOCC
•Meets monthly for 2 hours
•Responsibilities: population allocations, housing allocations, UGA amendments and Countywide Planning Policies
June 7, 2023
Population Allocations
BOCC - Workshop 7
Why is population allocation important?
•Comp Plan must address the population
•UGAs must be sized to accommodate 20-year populations
•Cities must plan to provide urban services
•Input to housing allocation
June 7, 2023
Population Allocations
BOCC - Workshop 8
Methodology
•Each city proposed their own
•Most based on permits in the pipeline, plus growth trends
•Chehalis based on land capacity analysis
•Centralia based on Housing Action Plan
BOCC >>> Stay in the OFM range!
April 25, 2023
Population Allocation
Lewis County Planning Commission 9
June 7, 2023
Population Allocations
BOCC - Workshop 10
Implications
•Hard to expand UGA
•Hard to obtain grants for infrastructure (e.g., sewer, water)
But … in 5 years OFM gives new projections and we do this again
June 7, 2023
Housing Allocations
BOCC - Workshop 11
•HB 1220
•Department of Commerce guidance
•County allocated housing to cities
•Coordination through Planned Growth Committee
•Recommendation to Planning Commission
•Decision by BOCC
April 25, 2023
Housing Allocations
Lewis County Planning Commission 12
April 25, 2023
Housing Allocations
Lewis County Planning Commission 13
April 25, 2023
Housing Allocations
Lewis County Planning Commission 14
April 25, 2023
Housing Allocations
Lewis County Planning Commission 15
•Larger cities near I-5 are better suited for lower income housing
•Employment
•Transit
•Social services
•Smaller cities do not have infrastructure to support more multifamily housing
•Unincorporated rural areas can’t have urban services
•Centralia’s Housing Action Plan
April 25, 2023
Housing Allocations
Lewis County Planning Commission 16
February 28, 2023
Housing Allocations
Lewis County Planning Commission - Public Workshop 17
GUIDANCE!
What do we have to do?
1.Capacity through zoning
2.Remove regulatory barriers
June 7, 2023
Public Hearing
BOCC - Workshop 18
May 25: Notice of Hearing, written testimony
June 7: BOCC Workshop
June 13: BOCC Public Hearing
Testimony to mindy.brooks@lewiscountywa.gov
https://lewiscountywa.gov/departments/community-development/rezones/comprehensive-plan-and-development-regulation-amendments/comprehensive-plan-periodic-update/
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