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Lacey planning staff propose rubric to winnow 48 rezone requests during comp‑plan update
Summary
City staff told the Planning Commission they received 48 rezone requests during the comprehensive‑plan update and presented a pass/fail plus points rubric to prioritize which requests will be handled as part of the 2025 update versus deferred to future cycles.
Staff members briefed the Lacey Planning Commission on March 12 on a new prioritization rubric to evaluate 48 rezone requests submitted as part of the city's comprehensive plan update.
The rubric is intended to create two buckets: locations to carry through the 2025 comprehensive‑plan process and locations to defer to 2026 or later because of staff capacity, complexity or the need for more detailed review. "We actually got 48 different requests," said Staff member (name not specified), summarizing the volume of submissions that exceeded the usual two to three applications per year.
The commission heard that staff created a two‑stage screen. The first stage is a pass/fail set of high‑level tests: the parcel must be inside city limits, not have active code or permit violations, and have a written request from the property owner (not only a…
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