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Council accepts BHC work on comprehensive plan appendices to secure grant payment
Summary
Leavenworth City Council accepted technical appendices to the comprehensive plan prepared by BHC Consulting on June 10, a step required to receive a Commerce grant installment; the acceptance is not adoption of the comprehensive plan.
The Leavenworth City Council on June 10 accepted technical appendices to the city’s 2026 comprehensive plan completed by BHC Consulting, a procedural acceptance required to receive a grant payment from the State Department of Commerce.
The council’s acceptance acknowledges completion of contracted work and does not adopt the comprehensive plan or bind future changes; staff said the appendices may be updated later as additional information becomes available.
Maggie, city planning staff, explained the work was part of a two-part grant and that the city received $50,000 this year with another $50,000 available in a subsequent year. “As part of our 2026 periodic update and the grant that we received from Commerce, we have a contract with BHC to complete our comprehensive plan land use and housing technical appendices,” Maggie said. She added that the council was only accepting that BHC fulfilled the contract and was not adopting plan materials that night.
Katie, the project consultant from BHC, joined the meeting by phone to answer technical questions; staff confirmed the land-capacity analysis counted vacant and underdeveloped private parcels and excluded city-owned properties from the capacity totals under the assumption the city was not offering those parcels for development in this analysis. “We did a land capacity analysis, basically measuring the existing capacity for jobs and housing, and we actually excluded anything that was owned by the city,” Katie said.
Councilmembers asked about additional assessment of specific city-owned parcels for housing feasibility. Staff and the consultant said that feasibility would be a separate, more detailed study and that the second grant disbursement or other funding could be used to pursue property-specific feasibility work if the council wished.
A motion to accept the BHC work was made and the council voted unanimously to approve the resolution accepting the completed technical appendices; Maggie reiterated that accepting the work is distinct from adopting the comprehensive plan.
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