Members of the Lopez Village Planning Review Committee discussed a near‑term request to pursue removal of a committee property from the Urban Growth Area (UGA) and noted a separate interest from a neighboring owner, the Webb family, in joining or exchanging UGA designation.

A committee member said she has talked with planning staff about the process to request removal from the UGA and that the bureaucratic process earliest starts in January; she indicated she will ask the committee to adopt a resolution supporting withdrawal. “I’m gonna ask for this committee to adopt resolutions supporting the withdrawal of our property from the UGA,” the member said.

Planning staff (Sophia Cassel) told the group that urban growth area amendments are scrutinized and that the county had received guidance about a newer concept — a UGA swap — that would pair removal of land from the UGA with the addition of other land in a way that could be acceptable to Commerce and county decision makers. She said a swap would likely require both property owners to be involved and possibly to apply together. “There is kind of a new concept that the state is encouraging… the urban growth area swap,” Cassel said, and she offered to forward guidance on the swap process.

Committee members identified a Webb parcel adjacent to the UGA as a potential candidate and asked planning staff whether the committee should contact that owner. Cassel said staff would not proactively contact property owners without a proposal but that committee members were welcome to speak with owners directly. The committee asked staff to add the topic to a future agenda so members could consider a formal resolution and to request that planners include LVPRC input when the docket item is staffed.

No final action was taken at the meeting; the conversation closed with an agreement that the committee would pursue additional information, consider a resolution supporting withdrawal, and request planning staff to provide the Commerce guidance on UGA swaps.