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Lake Stevens panel recommends narrow edits to 2024 comprehensive plan to meet state emergency-housing analysis requirement
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to forward recommended technical edits and an updated land-capacity analysis to City Council so the city complies with Department of Commerce guidance and Growth Management Act changes that require a quantitative emergency-housing analysis.
The Lake Stevens Planning Commission on Feb. 5 voted to forward a recommendation to City Council to amend Ordinance 11-88 with the narrow edits shown in attachments 1 and 2 to the adopted 2024 comprehensive plan.
Senior planner David Levitan told commissioners the changes are largely technical edits and one additional analysis requested by the Washington State Department of Commerce. "With the proposed changes shown in attachments 1 and 2, we are now fully compliant with the Growth Management Act," Levitan said.
The commission’s recommendation follows Commerce’s request that the city add a quantitative analysis of emergency-housing need to its land capacity analysis (LCA). Levitan said the revised LCA shows the city must demonstrate capacity for 304 emergency-housing beds over the next 20 years and that the city’s…
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