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County directs staff to draft map-and-code changes for streams, landslides, wildfire and tree protections under ZDO-290
Summary
Staff presented ZDO-290, a multi-part code update to meet state 'clear and objective' standards for housing; the board directed staff to prepare draft amendments on streams/wetlands (use existing urban inventories; defer rural wetlands), adopt DOGAMI landslide mapping, repeal discretionary unmapped fire-hazard rules and develop clear-and-objective upland tree-protection regulations (motion passed 4–1 on tree protections).
Planning Director Jennifer Hughes and staff briefed the board on ZDO-290, a county code-update project to make land-use standards for housing "clear and objective" consistent with statewide planning goals 5, 6, 7 and 15.
Streams and wetlands: Staff outlined three broad options — repeal discretionary water-quality standards that cannot be applied, continue to rely on existing urban stream and wetland inventories (Metro inventories) and defer rural wetlands to the Department of State Lands and Army Corps of Engineers, or adopt updated state maps that would likely increase the area regulated. After questions about map currency, buffer measurements (mean high-water line vs. top-of-bank), update cycles and outreach, Commissioner Helm moved…
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