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Council discusses GIS capacity, grant consultants and updating critical-area maps
Summary
Councilmembers considered contracting grant-writing and GIS support through a state consortium, using consultants for larger projects, and improving the city’s critical areas inventory to reduce costly site-by-site analyses for property owners.
Lake Forest Park councilmembers spent time Thursday outlining options to expand the city’s GIS and grant-writing capacity and to improve its critical areas mapping.
Staff said a full-time GIS hire was not funded in the current budget but the city retains access to a GIS consortium (noted as an Association of Washington Cities benefit) that provides base maps and GIS layers. For one-off or larger needs staff recommended contracting…
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