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Anacortes planning staff presents 2025–2045 comprehensive plan update, recommends keeping public comment open
Summary
City planning staff outlined population, housing and jobs projections and new state requirements for the 2025–2045 periodic update, said an urban growth area expansion is not needed, and recommended keeping the public comment period open for additional input.
Anacortes planning staff opened a public hearing Aug. 27 on proposed amendments to the city’s 2025–2045 comprehensive plan, presenting population and housing projections and new state requirements and recommending the commission keep the public comment period open. John Coleman, director of the Planning, Community and Economic Development Department, and Libby Grage, planning manager, led the briefing.
Coleman said the update is a decennial requirement of the state Growth Management Act and covers the city’s anticipated growth for the next 20 years. “We’re expecting just under 5,000 new residents between 2023 and 2045,” he said, and staff projects roughly 2,942 new homes and 3,145 new jobs will be needed to…
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