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Commissioners press staff to clarify Policy 2.3 on new entitlements, request overlays showing vested agreements
Summary
After staff outlined land‑use goals and maps, commissioners questioned how the future land‑use vision reconciles with vested development agreements and debated whether Policy 2.3 (limit on new entitlements) should be kept, softened or reframed; staff agreed to produce redlines and overlay GIS maps and return with alternatives.
Commission discussion pivoted from the chapter presentations to a sustained debate over how the draft plan treats existing entitlements, vested development agreements and where the county wants future density.
Multiple commissioners said the presented map set was difficult to interpret and urged staff to produce layered overlays that show current zoning, the boundaries of settlement/development agreements, deeded open space and parcel‑level entitlement status. As one commissioner summarized, “If you really wanna create... a place that people wanna live that they can identify as their town, I think we need to think about that concept somehow,” and asked staff to show “what's left” to achieve the vision.
Policy 2.3 — language included in the existing general plan that has…
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