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Home My WebLink AboutR-1990-D5833 Growth Management / Visioning Program RESOLUTION NO. if A RESOLUTION approving the Regional Strategy for implementing the Growth Management Act in Yakima County. WHEREAS, growth management in Yakima County requires the concerted and coordinated efforts of all governmental entities; and WHEREAS, it is in the public interest that local government cooperate and coordinate with one another in comprehensive land use planning, and WHEREAS, the establishment of a Regional Growth Management Strategy, supported by the fourteen cities and towns located in Yakima County and by Yakima County, will facilitate the commonality and coordination of Growth Management Plans; and WHEREAS, funding support for the planning efforts required by the Growth Management Act will be provided by the Washington State Department of Community Development (DCD) and the proceeds therefrom will be prorated among the cities, towns, and Yakima County based on equitable need; provided that 60% of those governments representing 75% of the County's population agree to funding distribution formula and to the general concepts contained in the Regional Growth Management Strategy as shown in the attached Exhibit "A"; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA that the framework, approach, and funding distribution, as set forth in the Regional Growth Management Strategy, attached hereto in Exhibit "A ", are approved. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor is hereby directed to designate a member of the Council to the Regional Planning Oversight Committee ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this / 62 day of October, 1990. MAYOR ATTEST: CITY CLERK Legai/bd Resotuuons RES SH62929 REGIONAL STRATEGY FOR IMPLEMENTING THE GROWTH MANAGEMENT ACT IN YAKIMA COUNTY A. DESCRIPTION OF THE GOVERNMENTAL FRAMEWORK Yakima County is the lead agency in coordinating growth management planning in the Yakima County region. The Yakima County Planning Department will serve as the lead agency contact. Comprehensive plan- ning duties for Yakima County and the various cities and towns within the County will be carried out by planning staffs from Yakima County, the City of Yakima and the Yakima Valley Conference of Governments/ Communities. B. REGIONAL APPROACH AND TIME FRAME TO ACCOMPLISH THE WORK Figure 1 depicts the regional approach that will be used to accom- plish comprehensive planning requirements under the Growth Management Act. The chart shows six general work elements that will make up the overall planning program for the County and all its cities and towns. The chart outlines the level of responsibility and general time frames among the various entities in carrying out each of the general work elements. Responsibility levels are shown as primary, lead and shared. Primary role means the indicated local entity (County or cities) has full responsibility for the duties and tasks associated with the particular work element. For example, each of the cities will have primary responsibility for development of their individual comprehensive plans as it applies within the City limits and the County will have primary responsibility for its comprehensive plan as it applies outside urban area boundaries. Planning for unincorporated lands within the urban growth boundaries will be shared by the County and each of the cities. A shared role is one in which both the County and its various cities assume mutual responsibility in accomplishing the work element. For example, designation of urban growth boundaries will require a coordinated effort by the County and cities based on the -1- APPENDIX A `FIGURE 1. REGIONAL APPROACH AND GENERAL TIME FRAME RESPONSIBILITY FOR COMPLETION OF TASKS OUTLINED BELOW GEOGRAPHIC AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY City /YVCOG Yakima County Urban Rural Primary I=SZI 1=2=Z3 ' City Shared Yakima County Shared :ssssswoossssss o Lead \� \ \ \ \ \ \�� \ \ \\ % / / / / / / / / / /� °� City Limits Urban Growth Boundary i TASK YEAR IV 1 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 Goal Setting/ " »» > ‘`• » \Ua»»►»»> •>•r sa/ em, /1 / ‘>s� `>`\\ `»‘> . wa %�>v N'>�� >N " N ‘‘‘' N ‘‘‘' C iti Involvement 1�� / / „ e a «'l, W/� V// / .'//> W#I d W/ .....N.;•:•;.: J • I i Resource Inventories / »»> \ x,» » >u»\v „ v i 1 o Designations / // 1/ Urban Growth Boundary v ;: t.•., ;•;:.•, ;.,s•.....,•..•., •.,•.v • OSfMIELi1`48Gfal Designation I Plan Devel ..nt ..>..> wa ............>.>..>.ssmwssomoNsm oissmss„..>..w.....x sms,.....w f 717.167.077/7/177M7/7".” 1177. W // /1~10, Implementation Measures O v�� >��»��w��»>�>L�� «�� >� ! ' Z %//777/717/71 7771/1/1V 17177//////77777. 1 IN:Mt:mai Oata Base »»»»»»»» » »»»» �»»»»»»>s I �/� / / / / / /// /. / / / / / / / / / / / / / //� / /// / / / projected twenty -year population, existing land base, present and future growth patterns and resource designations of fringe area lands. A cooperative, shared working relationship is essential in setting the growth boundary and to properly represent jurisdictional interests in the planning for the urban growth area. Lead role means either the County or the respective cities has the principal responsibility for carrying out the task with the support and assistance of the other entity. In the case of conducting the resource inventories, for example, the County will have the lead role because these resource lands occur almost exclusively in the unincorporated County, and it has the greatest need for this information. The cities will also have a part in this work but it will be secondary to the County's because of the relatively small amount of resource lands within their boundaries. C. YEARLY WORK PRIORITIES Yearly priorities for carrying out the planning requirements of the Growth Management Act will be determined largely by the work element deadlines mandated in the Act. The following outlines annual priorities over the projected four -year comprehensive planning program. 1990/1991 Regional priorities will be goal setting which includes setting up a citizen involvement program, resource land inventories and classification and establishing a regional data base. In conjunction with the resource land designations, the County will review and adopt development regulations for the protection of these resource lands. In addition to these priorities, plan development will begin to emerge as a priority among many of the cities in the latter half of 1991. 1992 With completion of the initial goal setting and resource inventory work in 1991, priorities during 1992 will shift to designating urban growth boundaries and development of comprehensive plans. A regional data base will continue to be expanded as plan elements are prepared. -3- 1993 The priority for the region in 1993 will be completion and adoption of comprehensive plans. Some cities may also be addressing implementation measures as a priority at this time. 1994 The preparation and adoption of implementation measures consistent with the comprehensive plans will dominate work activities throughout the region during 1994. Goal setting and citizen involvement will also have an important role in conjunction with code development. D. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANNING PROCESS Figure 2 depicts the conceptual framework for a planning process to implement this regional strategy. Under a regional strategy, the planning process must foster a close working relationship and careful coordination among the different entities within the County. The figure shows the relationship of the different players in the planning process. In general terms, the players are categorized as administrative /professional staff, technical support, and legislative bodies /planning boards and citizen participants. The figure lists the range of final products expected from this regional planning process. The job of carrying out the work program will rest with the planning staffs from the Yakima County Planning Department, Yakima Valley Conference of Governments /Communities, the City of Yakima Environmental Planning Division and the Metropolitan Yakima Comprehensive Plan consultant. A planning management team will be responsible for directing the activities necessary to implement the regional strategy. Their principal duties will be to oversee the day -to -day operations of the respective planning staffs, to handle the administrative aspects of the program, to share information and coordinate activities, and to maintain smooth working relationships between the different jurisdictions. From time to time, technical resource committees will need to be formed in order to provide technical expertise on specific tasks and plan elements. For example, the identification of resource lands such as agricultural, forest and mineral lands should be assisted by persons -4- FIGURE 2: CONCEPTUAL PLANNING PROCESS LEGISLATIVE BODIES/ ADMINISTRATIVE/ PLANNING BOARDS/ PROFESSIONAL STAFF I SUPPORT AL ICITIZEN PARTICIPANTS IADOPTED PRODUCT Planning Memepwront Teen YM1 a Canty Regional Fleming 1 Comprehensive planing meneg.rs Oversight CommittN from perticipeting agencies City and County elected officials CS chosen from 1 I representatives es Y� Com% nen I 1 Yeldels Comfy HRplcne Men Technical Reso.roe Foals 2018 Planning Advisory Committees Caneltts.s Specialized Regions% Plans PMTS. resource lends Rsprssuntetives from city councils. - Weser Ouell%) P%en Yakima Valley PMTS. utilities, end Others pl tng commissions. Interest groups, - Solid Wester Plan l Conference of Gpverlyllanf�/ es needed — env rgsnsre% citizenry within eight -- - Others ss nacos 1 sery Communities rn.. geographic plarning Mess • % of Yakima County I Community 1 Conpr heralve Mans City of Yellen - Grandview - Ora+psr Community Playing Committee* - Harrah Residents within far community's - Eton ..., Mom. urban growth boundary - Mss • • Neches - Ssleh m - Suystde _ - Tiston Metropolitan Yakima ISteerinp CCommittee - T l.to ntsh - Union Gap - Wepeto - Zillah - Yakima Indian Mellon Metropolitan Udine Citizen ---.1 Co Advisory Committees Metropolitan Yakima Comprehenssi ptvMnslva Flan en Consultants As established by consultant "1C0.,,CehSnSIV. Plan knowledgeable in those areas. Technical resource committees will be available to assist each jurisdiction with specific work tasks relevar to the technical expertise of the committee. This arrangement will provide consistency among each local jurisdiction in their effort to comply with various growth management requirements. The regional context to carry out the Growth Management Act's planning requirements will be enhanced with the appointment and use of various legislative and citizen committees comprised of both City and County representatives. Most notable of these groups would be the Yakima County Regional Planning Oversight Committee made up of elected officials from the County and the cities. This committee will meet periodically to oversee the work programs and progress of the respective comprehensive planning efforts. The committee would review and discuss issues relevant to the regional planning strategy and would largely serve to provide policy direction to guarantee that larger regional concerns are addressed by the various entities and incorporated within their planning documents. The composition of this group will serve to achieve intergovernmental cooperation and coordination among the different municipalities within Yakima County. A number of planning advisory committees will be formed for different geographical areas of the County to give residents and interest groups an active role in the planning process. These citizen committees will also include representatives from each city within the general planning area. The cross section of both city and noncity residents and representatives on the planning advisory committees will further ensure that the comprehensive plan goals, policies and recommendations emerging from these citizen groups reflect a regional context. Because the cities will prepare their own community plans which include unincorporated fringe lands within their urban growth boundaries, the cities will establish community planning committees to guide devel- opment of their comprehensive plans. Along with city residents and representatives, these committees will also consist of representatives from unincorporated areas within the urban growth boundary. -6- E. DISBURSEMENT OF GRANT FUNDS • As the lead agency, Yakima County will contract with DCD for growth management grant funds to carry out this regional planning strategy. The County will set up a special growth management account for depositing and disbursing the funds to the various planning agencies. Figure 3 presents a general schematic of how grant funds will flow from DCD to the local planning agencies. Figure 4 shows the distribution of funds among the local governments for the 1990/1991 fiscal year. -7- 10/5/90 csr FIGURE 3 . GRANT F UN D DISBURSEMENT YAKIMA COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT ...___ ............. WASHINGTON STATE YAKIMA COUNTY GROWTH MANAGEMENT GROWTH MANAGEMENT C.O.G. /COMMUNITIES co ACCOUNT ACCOUNT CITY OF YAKIMA ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING I If DIVISION 0 � 1 Il 10/4/90 __ --- - --- - - - - - - - GROWTH MANAGEMENT FUNDING • FIGURE 4 �'" FY 99 / 91 DISTRIBUTION C (TY of YaKiMA C 0 /C G OMMt1 NITIES YAKIMA COUNTS RD , TOTAL FUNDS $98.379 TOTAL FUNDS $200,000 T ' STAFF SUPPORT 3 - PLANNERS I 7 - 4 - PLANNERS STAFF TO PROF. SERVICES � flE ASSIGNED TASKS /` TASKS TASKS -RESOURCE LANDS -RESOURCE LANDS •RESO RCE LANDS INVE TORY /DESIG. INVENTORY /DESI INVENTORY,�DESIG. _'�_ -_�_ Q. MILES 4,248 SQ. MILE 14 SQ. / 6E� - .AERIAL PHOTOS .GOAL SETTNG/ •GOAL ETTING/ .GOAL SETTING/ IT N INVOLVEMENT E }' CITIZEN INVOLVE NT CITIZEN O C VOLVEMENT •PLAN DEVELOPME T -PLAN DELOPMENT .P N EVELOPMENT • ME 4, / TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE: $348,379 10/4/90 0 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ROOM 416 COUNTY COURTHOUSE, YAKIMA, WA. 98901 509 575 • 4111 Yakima FAX 509 - 575 -4071 County October 5, 1990 Mr. Dick Zais, City Manager City of Yakima 129 N. Second Street Yakima, WA 98901 Dear Dick: RE: GROWTH MANAGEMENT RESOLUTION -- ACTION REQUESTED County, City and YVCOG staff have cooperated to develop the enclosed "Regional Strategy for Implementing the Growth Management Act" in Yakima County ". It incorporates the process for updating both the Urban Area and Countywide Comprehensive Plans. A sample resolution adopting the regional strategy and the 1990/91 funding distribution is attached. We request that your council take action on this resolution and submit it to us as soon as possible, but not later than Wednesday, October 24, 1990, so that the package can be forwarded to the state and first half fiscal funding released. Thank you for your continued cooperation. Sincerely, BOARD OF YAKIMA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS j ) Aktittk.. Graham Tollefson, C irman GT:hah Enclosures *District One * District Two * District Three Alex Deccio Graham Tollefson Charles J. Klarich Chairman