Council reviews 2025 comprehensive-plan docket, staff details privately initiated Fur Lane rezone

City planning staff reviewed the city’s proposed 2025 final docket on Monday, laying out which comprehensive-plan amendments and development-regulation code changes staff expect to study this year and briefing the council on a privately initiated rezone on Fur Lane.

At a workshop item introducing the docket, Amy, a planning staff member in the Community and Economic Development Department, told the council that placing an item on the final docket “does not mean the project is approved” and that docket approval simply adds an item to the department’s work plan so staff can run SEPA review, accept public comment, and bring a formal proposal back to the planning commission and city council within the year.

The docket package includes one privately initiated comprehensive-plan/zoning-map amendment — a Fur Lane rezone — and 11 city-initiated amendments (three affecting the comprehensive plan or zoning map and eight code amendments to development regulations). Amy said the privately initiated rezone originally covered 7.84 acres and that the applicant later requested the addition of a fourth parcel, increasing the total to 8.77 acres. She said the upland portion of the site is roughly 5 acres.

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