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Walla Walla County sets July 1 application deadline for 2026 comprehensive-plan update after cities warn May date was too tight
Summary
Walla Walla County commissioners on Monday voted 3-0 to reset the application deadline for non‑county submissions to the 2026 comprehensive‑plan update to July 1, 2025, after city officials warned the previously proposed May date left too little time for required land‑capacity and population‑allocation work.
Walla Walla County commissioners on Monday voted 3-0 to reset the deadline for non‑county applications to the 2026 comprehensive-plan and development-regulation update to July 1, 2025, after city officials told the board the original May 2 deadline left too little time to complete required land-capacity and population-allocation work.
County planner Lauren (Community Development staff) told the board the county originally proposed a May 2 deadline to allow sufficient time to complete an environmental impact statement and to meet the state’s Growth Management Act periodic‑update deadline of June 30, 2026. "Our consultants' recommendation was that changing it from May 2 to the June, essentially another month, was something we could accommodate," she said. After further…
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