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Commission adopts general plan revisions to include county water-conservation element
Summary
Kane County adopted Ordinance 2025-4 to insert a water conservation element into the county general plan, incorporating the King County Water Conservancy District plan for about 74% of the county and starting ongoing work to add remaining public water systems.
The Kane County Commission unanimously adopted Ordinance 2025-4 on March 11 to revise the county's general plan and incorporate a required water conservation element under state law.
Shannon McBride, the county's land use administrator, told commissioners the state now requires a water conservation element and set a compliance deadline of December 2025. County staff worked with the local Water Conservancy District to adopt an already-approved plan covering roughly 74 percent of the county, which staff incorporated as an appendix to the general plan.
Morgan Shakespeare and planner Taylor Glover described work to update the general plan's format, photos, tables and maps to make it more user-friendly. Staff cautioned that smaller public water systems throughout the county (for example, Elk Ridge and other mutual/public water systems) must still be integrated and that the county will continue to revise the plan through the year.
Commissioners asked about maps in the adopted document; staff said the official, interactive GIS maps on the county website are a more practical way to present detailed zoning information than embedding large, static maps in the plan. Commissioners unanimously approved the ordinance.
