County planner outlines Goal 5 requirements and EC balancing process
County planning staff summarized Statewide Planning Goal 5 duties — inventorying significant resources, evaluating conflicting uses through an EC analysis, and adopting protections — and said the county will rely on updated maps and state agency input to justify local choices.
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A county planning staff member told the Protecting Our Natural Heritage Advisory Committee that Statewide Planning Goal 5 requires the county to inventory significant natural resources, identify uses that could conflict with those resources and adopt programs to protect what is significant. "In general, goal 5 requires for each of our resources that the county do several things," the presenter said, explaining the statute-driven framework for inventories and protections.
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