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Home My WebLink AboutR-1992-D6213 Growth ManagementRESOLUTION NO. 6213 A RESOLUTION approving the 1993 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 continuation 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. ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this I Oil --day of 14.0vg*A-c)., 1992. MAYOR ATTEST , CITY CLERK 1 1993 FISCAL YEAR 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 Yakima County region. The Yakima County Planning Department has served as the lead agency contact during the GMA planning process. Comprehensive planning 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, the various communities or their agents. B. REGIONAL APPROACH AND TIME FRAME TO ACCOMPLISH THE WORK Figure 1 depicts the regional approach that continues to be used to accomplish comprehensive planning requirements under the Growth Management Act. The chart shows seven general work elements that 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. FIGUE 1. REGIONAL A1'P[ OACI-1 AND GENERAL TIME FRAME RESPONSIBILITY FOR COrIPLE i 1ON OF TASKS OUTLINED BELOW City/YVCOG Yakima County GEOGRAPHIC Urban AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY Rural Primary ESSMSMSIMMI City Shared Yakima County Shared , . ::•::: .:.,k:$:;;v.r*• ; •s:• Nie, 1. A AK City Limits Urban Growth Boundary TASK YEAR 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 Goal Setting/�\� Citizen Involvement Resource Lands/Critical Area Designations Regional Policy Plan Urban Growth Boundary Designation Plan Development Implementation Measures Regional Data Base T .. ..,,,,,AN,N4�u h\\\V ,, • Wa�\� a\\N�. OM a��\r ��i� �� \\\\\\\�l.\\\\\\`4\\\�.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 4 ' / 1�/; .% \\\`c��1�1\\�1\\\\\\\l\\\\\ v: •::.: :<:::e.......•4:•:•::•:• :..:41<::..... ;;:�r;•:, :•::•:;:•::;.}::!:•}. ... .:•:j;•i{:::::•i:•:: .y}:::.:::: ...• . :i•:':•':' ,:... ,:::7.. ::...:. \\\\\\\\v�\�a\\\Baa\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ :;,.. \\\\\\\\�a\\\\\\\\a\\\\\\ .\.\�a\\�\\�\\��\�\�' /i ',v // /i iii / iii /6.•i //i /i// //i / iii ..97 ///i/i/ /,• / . / a\\\\\\\�/\NY/\\\��\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\v,\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\a\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\,,\\�\�\��\\�\�\\\\\\\\\\\\\..4. :; f.•:::::::—.'::•::•.::.\\\\ wa\xey \\va\\\s,\\\\\\i:, Revised 10/92 Yakima County Regional Strategy 1993 Fiscal Year 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 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 designating resource lands for example, the County assumed the lead role because these resource lands lie almost exclusively in the unincorporated County, and it has the greatest need for this information. The cities also played a part in this work but it was 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 to complete remaining tasks for this comprehensive planning program. 1990/91 (Completed) - Regional priorities were goal setting which included setting up a citizen involvement program, visioning, resource land inventories and classification and compiling a regional data base. In conjunction with the resource land designations, the County reviewed existing ordinances and adopted interim development regulations for the Yakima County Regional Strategy 1993 Fiscal Year protection of resource lands. Preliminary discussions to define urbangrowth boundaries commenced in mid-1991. 1992 - With completion of the initial goal setting (visioning) and resource inventory work in 1991, priorities during 1992 have shifted to critical areas, county -wide planning policies and setting the stage for development of comprehensive plans and urban growth area boundaries. A regional data base will continue to be expanded as plan elements are prepared. 1993 - The priority for the region in 1993 will be completion and adoption of county -wide planning policies and critical area designations and protective measures. Preparation of comprehensive plan elements will begin in earnest. Preliminary urban growth areas will be identified. 1994 - Completion and adoption of 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 the adoption process. 1995 - Upon completion of comprehensive plans, the priority task will become preparation and adoption of implementation measures consistent with the plans. Citizen involvement will continue to be a key element of ordinance preparation and adoption. D. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANNING PROCESS Figure 2 depicts the conceptual framework for the 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 ADMINISTRATIVE/ PROFESSIONAL STAFF Planning Management Team Comprehensive planning managers from participat- ing agencies FIGURE 2: CONCEPTUA N, PLANNING PROCESS TECHNICAL I SUPPORT LEGISLATIVE BODIES/ PLANNING 130ARDS/ I CITIZEN PARTICIPANTS I ADOPTED PRODUCT Yakima (aunty Communities/ City of Yakima Yakima Valley COG Technical Resource Committees YMATS, resource lands/ critical areas, utilities, and others as needed. Countywide Planning Policy Committee City and County elected offi- cials as specified in theCounty wide Planning Policy Frame- work Agreement. Regional Planning Policy Yakima County Comprehensive Plan Focus 2010 Planning Advisory Committees Representatives from city councils, planning commis- sions, interest groups, and general citizenry. Community Planning Committees Residents within the commu- nity's urban growth boundary - Yakima Visioning 2010 - Individual City Public Participation Efforts Regional Transports►rol Ilan Specialized Regional Plans - Water Quality Plan - Solid Waste Plan Community Comprehensive Plans - Grandview - Granger - Harrah - Mabton - Moxee - Naches - Selah - Sunnyside - Tieton - Toppenish - Union Gap - Wapato - Zillah - Yakima Metro Yakima County Regional Strategy 1993 Fiscal Year 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, the communities (some through the Yakima Valley Conference of Governments),, the City of Yakima Environmental Planning Division and the Metropolitan Yakima Comprehensive Plan consultant. Except for the City of Yakima, Union Gap and Selah, the communities of Yakima County do not have their own planning staffs. The Yakima Valley Conference of Governments provides planning assistance to those communities requesting such service. However, the YVCOG is only able to provide services commensurate with the communities' funding capabilities. A planning :management team is responsible for directing the activities necessary to implement the regional strategy. Its principal duties have been 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 are formed in order to provide technical expertise on specific tasks and plan elements. For example, the identification of resource lands and critical areas has been assisted by persons knowledgeable in those areas. Technical resource committees are available to assist each jurisdiction with specific work tasks relevant to the technical expertise of the committee. This arrangement will provide Yakima County Regional Strategy 1993 Fiscal Year 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 incorporated and unincorporated representatives. A County -Wide Planning Policy Committee made up of elected officials from the County and the cities has been formed to oversee the work programs and progress of the respective comprehensive planning efforts. The committee is currently reviewing county -wide planning policies and discussing ::.sues relevant to the regional planning strategy. It largely serves 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 helps to achieve intergovernmental cooperation and coordination among the different municipalities within Yakima County. Planning advisory committees for both the Upper Valley and Lower Valley are giving residents and interest groups an active role in the planning process. The committees are participating in the various aspects of the planning process such as visioning, resource lands/critical areas designation and comprehensive plan development. These citizen committees include both city and non - city residents from the respective planning areas to ensure that the products 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 Yakima County Regional Strategy 1993 Fiscal Year to guide development of their comprehensive plans. Along with the city residents and representatives„ these committees will also consist of representatives from unincorporated areas within the urban boundary. The formation and use of ongoing citizen committees such as those described here will ensure early and continuous public participation at each stage of the comprehensive planning process. This participation will be carried through the development and adoption of comprehensive plans and implementing regulations. 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 has 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 1992/1993 fiscal year. Terri\GMASTRAT.93 8 FIGURE 3. GRANT FUND DISBURSEMEN't WASII I NGTON STATE GROWTH MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT 1O/92 YAKI NI A COUNTY G ROWTI I MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT VAKINIA C I_J NI 'I' Y PIA N N I NG DEP A WI' NI ENT COMMUNITIES CITY OF YAKIMA ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING DIVISION FIGURE 4 2929 (GM.-`.) FUNDING DISTRIBUTION 1993 Fiscal 'tea: Allocation 5293 346 00 1992 20 83cz, 199-3 RCE_2-N1 _ P ALLOCATION - REDLCT I ON = :? I_? CC AT I ON CHANGE \{AET' i\ MC.\EE --C\ C-,.. i - 515.958 27 S9 287 38 S7 . _'_8 07 58 525 72 57 • 1 - 28 37 + 3 ; 01 513 152 82 520 9 . _. 5; 57 54.8 26 .516 135 99 3 _ 1 • 60 . 25 S_.. 439 93 _ 1 J 33 (53 323 54); 512 65' 73 .Si 934 >>)I 37.353 15 (51.484 52); S.5 543 55 (51.775 60); S6 '%50 12 (51 606 40; So.i0o 83 (31 545 24 )1 _ 885 77 t32 730 26); 510 413 50 I 3- 367 33,; 516 604 71 03); 5. 976 23 360 5 5 ) . 2. 7, 5 -_ i (5 _ . _20 36) ; 5 3 . 3 9 _ 39, S: _8_ 35 ) , 59 056 73 I ' - S'.:15 : 0 , 57.207 - 20 3260 - 20 826% -20 826'.6 - 20 855'r -20 826 - 20 826'0 - 2 0 - 20 0 2 ! - 20 - - 20 3_6 - _9 b_ c - 20 826'73 - - 801 68 I 3- , I -20 - 20 3:6-0 - 20 ... 30 3 7 16' 00;1 S- 6 00 -20