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Council continues debate on 2025 Comprehensive Plan and seeks clearer language on 'step-back' for taller buildings

Anacortes City Council · November 11, 2025
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Summary

City planning staff presented the draft 2025 Comprehensive Plan — including a new climate element and major transportation and housing updates — and council requested clarifications and additional materials before adoption.

Planning Director John Coleman presented the 2025 Comprehensive Plan update and the planning-commission recommendations during a long council work session on Nov. 10. The major changes include a new climate element, updates to housing and a rewritten transportation element.

Council members and staff also reviewed planning-commission edits (eight items) and asked staff to supply missing or low-resolution materials — notably higher-resolution maps and a tree-canopy map — before final adoption. Libby Grange, planning manager, said staff revised…

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