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The Clark County Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, November 19, 2009, at 6:30 p.m., in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 6th Floor, Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street, Vancouver. The purpose of the hearing is to consider amendments to the Clark County 20-year Comprehensive Growth Management Plan 2004-2024 map and zoning map to redesignate certain properties as agricultural and to remove them from the Vancouver, Ridgefield, and Battle Ground Urban Growth Areas, respectively.
The properties in consideration are as follows:
"Agriculture Viability Study Area VB" redesignated to Agricultural (AG-20) from Light Industrial and Railroad Industrial, and remove the properties from the Vancouver Urban Growth Area. All of these properties are within an Urban Holding Overlay District (UH).
"Agriculture Viability Study Area BC" redesignated to Agricultural (AG-20) from Employment Center, and remove the properties from the Battle Ground Urban Growth Area. All of these properties are within an Urban Holding Overlay District (UH).
"Agriculture Viability Study Area RB-2" redesignated to Agricultural (AG-20) from Urban Low Density Residential and removed from the Ridgefield Urban Growth Area. All of these properties are within an Urban Holding Overlay District (UH).
"Docket CPZ2008-00005-1" (also known as the Schwarz property) redesignated to Agricultural (AG-20) from Rural (R-5).
Clark County is responding to a decision from the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board (WWGMHB) and Clark County Superior Court regarding an appeal on urban growth boundaries approved by the Board of Clark County Commissioners in 2007.
The appeal was filed June 12, 2008, in Clark County. It seeks to overturn a recent decision and order from the WWGMHB. The state board found that the county did not comply with the state's Growth Management Act when bringing lands previously designated for agricultural uses into urban growth areas.
- WWGMHB Final Decision and Order (PDF).
- Clark County's Appeal (PDF).
The county's appeal was aimed at retaining those lands within urban growth areas. The areas will revert to resource land designations in place before 2007, unless they have already been annexed to a city and are now within city limits.
The areas involved in the initial appeal are below:
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CAMAS - CA-1 (342.56 acres)
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CAMAS - CB (402.19 acres)
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LA CENTER LB-1 (218.81 acres)
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LA CENTER LB-2 (244.53 acres)
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LA CENTER LE (112.47 acres)
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RIDGEFIELD - RB-2 (199.69 acres)
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VANCOUVER - VA (125.02 acres)
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VANCOUVER - VA-2 (22.89 acres)
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VANCOUVER - VB (780.43 acres)
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WASHOUGAL - WB (166.06 acres)
