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College Place planning commission recommends countywide planning policies for city council ratification
Summary
The College Place Planning Commission voted to recommend the draft countywide planning policies to the City Council for ratification, advancing a multi-jurisdictional update tied to Washington State’s Growth Management Act.
The College Place Planning Commission voted Jan. 21 to recommend that the City Council ratify the final draft of updated countywide planning policies, advancing a document that staff say will guide future comprehensive-plan amendments across Walla Walla County.
The recommendation moves the draft to the city council, which must decide whether to ratify the county commissioners’ Dec. 23, 2024 action to forward the document; if ratified by the cities, the county commission will consider final adoption. “We have 90 days to ratify the board of county commissioners’ actions,” City staff member John Rickard said during the meeting.
Why it matters: the countywide planning policies set a shared framework for how Walla Walla County and its cities allocate growth and amend comprehensive plans under the state Growth Management Act. Commissioners discussed the document’s history, the creation…
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