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Skagit County commissioners discuss moratorium, voluntary compliance agreements for existing businesses
Summary
Skagit County commissioners said they will maintain a board overseeing an emergency moratorium while staff work to finalize voluntary compliance agreements with most existing businesses that were required to submit land-use forms by July 1.
A Skagit County commissioner said the county will keep an advisory board in place while staff finish work on an emergency moratorium and voluntary compliance agreements for existing businesses.
County staff told commissioners that of 18 businesses subject to the compliance requirement, 15 land-use forms had been returned by the July 1 deadline and staff expected one or two more. Staff said one business indicated it was not working on the required form. Commissioners said they want signatures on voluntary compliance agreements and asked staff to meet with business owners this month and aim to have agreements signed by August.
Commissioners framed the emergency ordinance and the moratorium as a tool to allow the county time to put code in place. One commissioner described the process as the third moratorium the county has put in place recently and said the moratorium is intended to produce a “good code in place.”
The discussion was procedural: commissioners emphasized completing documentation from existing businesses, meeting with owners to negotiate voluntary compliance agreements, and returning with signed agreements by the requested timetable. No ordinance number or formal vote on the moratorium was recorded in the transcript.
