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Planning commission recommends 2025–2045 comprehensive plan; council to review 627-page draft
Summary
Planning Director John Coleman presented the Planning Commission’s recommended draft of Anacortes’ 2025–2045 Comprehensive Plan, highlighting a new climate element, housing and transportation updates and several future land use map amendments; council review and adoption are planned before the holidays if schedule allows.
John Coleman, director of planning, community and economic development, told the Anacortes City Council the Planning Commission has recommended approval of the draft 2025–2045 Comprehensive Plan with minor modifications and released the 627-page document for council and public review.
Coleman summarized major changes: a new climate element, updates to the housing element (including policies to increase housing variety and policy changes on short-term rentals), a rewritten transportation element, and several…
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