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Commission examines displacement map, water-supply checks and Commerce checklist in comprehensive plan update
Summary
Planning staff reviewed Commerce's checklist, proposed text on displacement risk and recommended that the county require demonstrable water availability for developments needing a water right (5,000 gpd); commissioners debated transport mitigation language and local definitions for environmental justice.
Planning staff used the commission's work session to walk through proposed edits to the comprehensive plan's policy tables and the Department of Commerce checklist, and commissioners discussed several substantive policy proposals raised during testimony.
Staff said the Commerce checklist identifies areas where the county must either adopt policy changes or note exemptions for a largely rural jurisdiction. "Five of the six items were transportation related that Clallam County being a rural county is not obligated to respond to," staff said, adding the county proposed narrative responses where…
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