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Planning director warns council GMA criteria and past appeals constrain urban growth boundary expansions
Summary
Clark County planning director Oliver Ojiako told the council that expanding urban growth areas requires demonstration of need and showing reasonable measures to increase capacity; staff will provide RCW/WAC citations and the countywide ag study addresses the three-part test used for agricultural designations.
Oliver Ojiako, Clark Countys community planning director, told the council at a March 25 work session that staff were presenting information for council deliberation and not asking for a decision. "You are not going to be making a decision today," he said, emphasizing the meeting was informational.
Ojiako reviewed the legal framework under the Growth Management Act and Washington Administrative Code, telling councilors that before expanding any urban growth area the county must demonstrate need and pursue reasonable measures to increase capacity. He described the WACthree-part test for designating agricultural resource land: (a) the land must not already be characterized by urban growth, (b) it must be…
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