This Topic: Boundary setting, Critical Areas and Land Use Planning

[Michael Dolan]

The Incorporation working group will be setting up several sub committees to look at specific areas of incorporation. One will be a sub committee to work on identifying boundaries for the potential city of Freeland and also its Urban Growth Boundary. I strongly recommend that the volunteers who signed up to look at Critical Areas and those who signed up for Land Use connect with the Boundary Sub committee to work together on these issues.

On reviewing the "Designating Urban Growth Areas document Part I & Part II" (available from www.vision2025committee.com , Library of Documents under Incorporation or the MRSC web site), I found that boundary setting is very closely tied to identifying Land Use designations and Critical Areas. The Revised Code of Washington (RCW) Chapter 36.70A http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=36.70A&full=true , our states Growth Management Act and the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 365-190 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=365-190&full=true , Classification of Lands in Support of Growth Management provide the legal basis for these activities.

The principal guiding document for setting boundaries for Freeland will be the "Designating Urban Growth Areas document Part I & Part II". Also, it will be important to work with the Planning & Community Development staff for maps and GIS data overlays during the boundary setting activities.

If you signed up for either Critical Areas or Land Use, please plan to attend the next Incorporation meeting, this Tuesday, February 28th, 7:00PM at the Freeland Library.

Mike Dolan

[Loretta Martin]

Mike,
I went to the links from this posting in hope of finding a map showing the planned growth boundries and any critical areas already designated. There is a link but no map appears. Where can one see a map? I assume, from all the recent activity, that the Freeland growth area map my mother and I saw at a Freeland sub-area planning meeting five years ago is no longer the working document.
Loretta

[Michael Dolan]

Loretta,
The only maps available at this time are at the County web site. Freeland, as a potential NMUGA has a boundary map, also only available from the county. There are no designated growth boundaries at this time, either from the county or the Vision 2025 committee. Hopefully, as the Incorporation working group coordinates with the Land Use and Critical Areas working groups, we will be able to identify appropriate boundaries for a potential city and also for the Urban Growth Area.
Mike

[Loretta Martin]

Thanks Mike.
Will you be posting a link to those County maps from the "maps" choice on the Freeland Community Forum wed site (left side menu). If not, where in Coupeville could one see the maps you mentioned.
Thanks,
Loretta