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Medical Lake planner outlines amendment criteria to guide 12-month code rewrite
Summary
Senior planner Elisa Rodriguez told the council the city will revise approval criteria for comprehensive-plan, development-regulation and zoning-map amendments to meet Growth Management Act requirements and improve clarity and predictability; a Planning Commission hearing is set for Dec. 18 and public comment closes in two days.
Elisa Rodriguez, Senior City Planner for the City of Medical Lake, told the council on Dec. 2 that the city will rework approval criteria used to evaluate amendments to the municipal code, comprehensive plan and zoning map.
"Approval criteria is kind of the meat of this," Rodriguez said, explaining that clearer, more defensible language will help staff and the public understand how proposals are judged. She said the current Chapter 17.56 was last substantially…
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