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Building and Planning seeks board support to ease private‑road standards for small short plats
Summary
Building and Planning staff proposed removing the county engineer from approval of short plats of four lots or fewer, raising the private‑road trigger from three to five lots, and moving certain reviews in‑house to reduce costs and timelines for small developers; staff will run a SEPA review and take the proposal to the planning commission.
Tracy Jackson, director of Cowlitz County Building and Planning, asked the Board of Commissioners on Feb. 3 to support a package of changes intended to lower development costs and shorten permitting timelines for small private short plats.
Jackson said staff and the Building and Planning Advisory Committee (BPAC) had extensively revised private‑road and short‑plat procedures, with "9 BPAC meetings" and multiple draft revisions. Staff proposed raising the threshold that triggers the county engineer's private‑road standard: "The third lot of any short plat or any driveway triggers a private road standard. We're…
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