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Planning staff presents 2015 annual report and first cut at countywide capacity analysis
Summary
Planning staff distributed the commission's 2015 annual report, discussed a work program and described an initial countywide housing-capacity model that estimates roughly 25,000 new dwelling units under current septic limits; staff offered to refine assumptions and present follow-up analysis to commissioners.
Planning staff distributed the Planning Commission's 2015 annual report and outlined a work program for 2016 that includes a countywide development capacity analysis and a complete revision of the Comprehensive Water and Sewer Plan (CWSP).
Jeff Jackman, planning staff, told commissioners the capacity analysis contractor provided an initial “first cut” that estimates county residential capacity at roughly 25,000 dwelling units under the county’s interpretation of the Sustainable Growth Act (the septic limitation). Jackman said the contractor’s alternate calculation, without the septic-law limitations, showed a slightly…
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