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Thurston County outlines high-level comprehensive-plan updates, including housing, climate and code changes
Summary
Thurston County staff reviewed the countywide comprehensive-plan update, noting housing, climate, natural-resource and development-regulation changes that will affect joint planning with Yelm, including potential updates to allow limited detached accessory dwelling units and streamlined mobile-home permitting in the unincorporated county.
Thurston County senior planner Miriam Biasian briefed the joint meeting on the county's comprehensive-plan update and highlighted items that overlap with Yelm’s update, including housing, climate, natural resources and changes to development regulations.
"The comprehensive plan guides growth and development over the next 20 years," Biasian said. The county’s update will rework the housing chapter (a full repeal and replacement), add a stand-alone climate chapter, revise natural-resource sections, and update capital-facilities and transportation-related policies to reflect new…
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