Twenty-year Comprehensive Plan Update

Kittitas County is updating its Comprehensive plan as required by the Washington State Growth Management Act (GMA). Kittitas County's comprehensive plan will establish policies for community growth and development for the next 20 years. Kittitas County's update process is required to be completed by June 30, 2019, see RCW 36.70A.130(5)(c).

Upcoming Meetings
 

Planning Commission

A Public Hearing before the Planning Commission is scheduled to be held on May 14, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Auditorium to accept public testimony/comment on the draft comprehensive plan and for the Planning Commission to make a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners.

Related Documents

Past Meetings
 

Open Houses – First Draft Comp Plan

Lower County - March 26, 2019: 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Kittitas County Courthouse - Commissioner's Auditorium
205 W 5th Ave, Room 109
Ellensburg, WA 98926

Lower County - March 27, 2019: 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Upper Kittitas County District Courthouse - Courtroom
700 East 1st Street
Cle Elum, WA 98922

Planning Commission Meetings

A second work session between staff and the planning commission occurred on April 23, 2019 at 6:00 pm in the Commissioner’s Auditorium to continue discussing the first draft of the updated Comprehensive Plan

SEPA Documents

Related Documents

The Planning Commission evaluated two submitted Citizen-initiated Amendment Requests (CARs) at their regularly scheduled open public meeting on August 9, 2016, and recommended including the CAR topics as part of the Comprehensive Plan update process.

• August 9, 2016 Meeting Agenda
• Planning Commission Recommendation with Staff Report Attachment

Working Group Meetings

Representatives from each Advisory Group have now come together to create the Working Group. They will review topics and issues brought out in the previous advisory group meetings.

• 2018
  • Meeting Agenda for January 24, 2018
  • Meeting Materials for January 24, 2018
  • Meeting Minutes for January 24, 2018
  • Meeting Agenda for February 21, 2018
  • Meeting Materials for February 21, 2018
  • Meeting Minutes for February 21, 2018
  • Meeting Agenda for March 21, 2018
  • Meeting Materials for March 21, 2018
  • Meeting Minutes for March 21, 2018
  • Meeting Agenda for April 26, 2018
  • Meeting Materials for April 26, 2018
• 2017
  • Working group meeting schedule
  • Meeting materials for March 23rd, 2017
  • Meeting agenda for April 6th, 2017
  • Meeting minutes for April 6th, 2017
  • Meeting agenda for April 20th, 2017
  • Revised Rural Land Use Meeting Presentation, April 20th, 2017
  • Work Group Edits to the Vision and Principles, April 20th, 2017
  • Meeting Agenda for June 29, 2017
  • Meeting Minutes for June 29, 2017
  • Meeting Agenda for October for 26, 2017
  • Meeting Materials for October 26, 2017
  • Meeting Minutes for October 26, 2017
  • Meeting Agenda for December 20, 2017
  • Meeting Materials for December 20, 2017
  • Meeting Minutes for December 20, 2017 - DRAFT
• These surveys were presented to the Working Group to assist them in defining Rural Character at the upcoming meeting. Please feel free to take them. The results will be presented to the group on Thursday.

All Working Group meetings will be held at the Kittitas Valley Event Center located at 901 E. 7th Avenue in Ellensburg. The room noted on the meeting schedule is subject to change.

Advisory Group Meetings

Based on community input during the visioning process the advisory groups include: land use, recreation and the natural environment, transportation, housing, resource lands, and economic development. The advisory group kick off meeting was held on June 21st and included setting future meeting times for each group.

• Advisory group meeting schedule

All advisory group meetings will be held at the Kittitas Valley Event Center located at 901 E. 7th Avenue in Ellensburg. The room noted on the meeting schedule is subject to change.

Visioning Meetings

Kittitas County Community Development Services held 6 visioning meetings in February and March 2016. County staff also developed an online community survey to address public comments and feedback from community groups.

Please review the Public Visioning Summary Report and the Addendum to Community Vision Report which reflect community input from the six community visioning meetings and the online community visioning survey. The Addendum includes a draft of the vision statement for the 2037 Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan. Please send comments to compplan@co.kittitas.wa.us.