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Lakewood planners open 2026 comprehensive-plan docket, outline dozen state-driven law changes
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Lakewood Planning Commission reviewed the proposed 2026 comprehensive plan and development-regulation docket, highlighting about a dozen amendments required or prompted by recent state legislation and a schedule for local review and hearings.
The Lakewood Planning Commission on Sept. 3 opened the city’s 2026 comprehensive plan and development-regulation docket, identifying roughly 21 proposed amendments and saying about 12 respond directly to new state law. Andrea Bell, the city’s senior planner, told the commission that the hearing tonight was the start of a multi-step process: the commission sets a docket, the City Council may revise it, and substantive review — including State Environmental Policy Act analysis and review by the Washington State Department of Commerce and Department of Ecology — follows. Bell said the docket lists a mix of state-law required and locally initiated items and cautioned that “we may pull some things…
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