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Planning commission reviews natural environment redlines; staff to merge climate, habitat and stormwater policies
Summary
Commissioners reviewed proposed redlines to the natural environment chapter that will be merged with a new climate/resiliency element. Staff emphasized language edits, new stormwater goals and that some dated policies (permeable parking surfaces, encouragement of double metering) are proposed for deletion; staff said maps of aquifer recharge and
At the June 11 Liberty Lake Planning Commission meeting staff presented proposed redlines to the comp plan’s natural environment chapter and described plans to merge it with the climate/resiliency element. Director Key turned the presentation to Amy (staff), who walked commissioners through language edits, proposed new goals and policy deletions and solicited feedback on maps and cross‑chapter overlaps.
Amy asked commissioners to focus on policy language rather than formatting while the two chapters are integrated. “All I'm asking you guys to look at right now is the language itself and try not to focus too much on where things are within the chapter and just look at the language itself,” she said.
What staff proposed - Chapter merge and editing: Staff will combine the existing natural environment chapter with incoming climate and resiliency language, remove redundancies and reorganize goals…
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