Welcome
Welcome to the Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan Compliance 2012 project, the County's current effort to revise its Comprehensive Plan to meet state Growth Management Act (GMA) requirements.
What's This All About?
The County is seeking input to revise the current Comprehensive Plan and
related Development Code. Some aspects of the County's current Plan and Code are
not consistent with state laws that guide land use planning. This effort will
make the County's Plan and Code consistent and provide a blueprint for future
development.
How Did We Get Here?
The County's Comprehensive Plan was updated in 2006, but was rejected in part
by the Eastern Washington Growth
Management Hearings Board
(EWGMHB), which hears disputes arising from the adoption of comprehensive plans.
Over the last few years, the County has amended the Comprehensive Plan to
comply with the decision by the EWGMHB. The EWGMHB issued an
Order Following Remand from Washington State Supreme Court in matters 07-1-0004c
and 07-1-0015 dated November 7th of 2011 372
KB, finding the County's Comprehensive Plan and Development Regulations
to be in compliance for some issues and continued noncompliance and invalidity
for other issues. The remaining legal issues to be address include:
Case No. 07-1-0004c
- Issue 1: Three-acre densities
- Issue 6: Expansion of City of Kittitas UGA
- Issue 10: KCC 16.09 (Performance Based Cluster Platting) and
KCC 17.36
(PUD Zone)
- Issue 11: Variety of rural densities
- Issue 14: Expansion of City of Kittitas UGA
Case No. 07-1-0015
- Issue 1: Rural densities
- Issue 2: Urban uses in rural areas
- Issue 3: Urban uses in agricultural lands of long-term
significance
- Issue 4: Water quality and quantity of land with common
ownership
- Issue 6: Highway Commercial Zone
- Issue 7: One-time splits
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