County, port and city officials discuss an industrial UGA swap and infrastructure hurdles for Western Port Angeles

County planning staff presented a proposal to reassign roughly 250 acres of industrially designated land at the Clallam Bay correction center to the West Side of Port Angeles, and led a lengthy discussion about the legal criteria, infrastructure needs and public outreach that would accompany any such swap.

Bruce (planning staff) told the joint meeting that the swap idea began with the observation that the Clallam Bay industrial acreage has been largely undeveloped for decades and is divided among multiple parcel owners. He summarized the statutory criteria cited in the meeting — quoted in the presentation as “RCW 36 78 1 10 subsection 8” and related provisions — and emphasized two limiting rules staff interpreted as central: the swap cannot “result in a net increase of total…