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County selects preferred land-use alternative; planners outline implications for schools
Summary
County planning staff told the Schools Advisory Council that a preferred land-use alternative has been selected and that the comprehensive-plan update will drive a 20‑year capital‑facilities update; staff asked districts for inputs for a countywide 20‑year outlook ahead of planning commission and council review.
Jenna Kaye, a land use planner in Clark County’s Community Planning Department, updated the Schools Advisory Council on the comprehensive-plan update and what it means for districts.
Kaye said staff completed product initiation and the framing phase and are now in the review-and-refine phase after the county council selected a preferred land-use alternative in late April. She advised that the preferred alternative will guide the final proposed comprehensive plan and the final environmental impact statement, and that staff plan to advance proposed policy and code amendments through the planning commission and county council with adoption anticipated in the fall.
The planner provided high-level growth assumptions the update uses: “We are planning for a population of over 700,000 people by the year 2045,” Kaye said, and noted that implies roughly 200,000 more people and about 100,000 more housing units than today. She also said the work must respond to recent state changes to the Growth Management Act and climate legislation, which mean the county will propose increased residential density in more places and a new climate chapter affecting transportation and other elements.
Kaye told the council that five full districts submitted updated capital facilities plans (Evergreen, Hockinson, The Center, Washington and Woodland); staff will review those submittals, bring them to the planning commission in July, and then forward them to county council for adoption. She said county staff will shortly reach out to school districts to request inputs for a 20‑year capital‑facilities outlook to be folded into the countywide capital facilities chapter.
No adoption vote occurred at the advisory meeting; Kaye encouraged districts to review interactive maps and GIS layers on the county website and to engage in the planning-commission review in July.
