Planning commission recommends 2025 comprehensive plan update, reclassifies East Pierce Fire land for community facility

The Milton Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend city council adopt the draft 2025 updates to the comprehensive plan, including an amendment to the future land use map to reclassify property East Pierce Fire and Rescue has purchased as community facilities. The public hearing was opened at 6:05 p.m. for PLN 202500005 and closed after one public speaker.

The change affects parcels now owned by East Pierce Fire and Rescue; the department presented the map amendment as the first step toward building a permanent station. John Parkinson, identified in public comment as “the fire chief of East Pierce Fire and Rescue located in Bonney Lake,” told the commission the acquisition and project had been “a multiyear project for East Pierce Fire and Rescue to both acquire the land and…