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Home My WebLink Aboutres2014-013 WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL AGENDA BILL NO. 2014-056B CLEARANCES Initial Date Date Received in Council Office Agenda Date Assigned to: Originator: M.A. 2/12/2014 2/25/2014 Planning& Matt W.Aamot Development Comm. Division Head: > j� /) ® 2/25/2014 Introduction Mark Personius l,�!/L .2 -i 2-t .I U �� WJ Dept.Head: Fce 3/11/2014 Council Hearing Sam R y a n 1 S�� Z-) /y FEB 18 2014 Prosecutor: /' '}Royce Buckingham 2- t 3 - /(1( WHATCOM COUNTY Purchasing/Budget: COUNCIL Executive: /3 /,4 Jack Louws c2-1( , TITLE OF DOCUMENT: Multi-jurisdictional resolution relating to population and employment growth allocations. ATTACHMENTS: 1. Cover letter 2. Draft Resolution SEPA review required? ( ) Yes (X' ) NO Should Clerk schedule a hearing? ( X ) Yes ( ) NO SEPA review completed? ( ) Yes ( X) NO Requested Date: March 11,2014 'SEPA review is not required for this resolution. However, it will be required in order to revise growth projections in the comprehensive plan. SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE: (If this item is an ordinance or requires a public hearing,you must provide the language for use in the required public notice. Be specific and cite RCW or WCC as appropriate. Be clear in explaining the intent of the action.) Under the Growth Management Act, Whatcom County and the seven cities within the County must complete the periodic update of their comprehensive plans and review urban growth areas by June 30, 2016 (RCW 36.70A.130). County and city comprehensive plans must be coordinated and consistent. As part of the coordination effort, the County Council will consider a non-binding multi-jurisdictional resolution relating to preliminary population and employment growth allocations. This resolution would assist the County and cities in conducting environmental review, developing draft land use planning proposals, transportation modelling and developing draft capital facility plans. Final growth allocations would be adopted in the 2016 Comprehensive Plan update. COMMITTEE ACTION: COUNCIL ACTION: 2/25/2014: Amended and forwarded to Council 2/25/2014: Substitute Introduced for approval 3/11/2014: Council Approved 6-1, Crawford opposed Res. 2014-013 Related County Contract#: Related File Numbers: Ordinance or Resolution Number: AB2013-127,AB2013-251, Res. 2014-013 AB2013-303,AB2014-056, AB2014-056A Please Note: Once adopted and signed, ordinances and resolutions are available for viewing and printing on the County's website at: www.co.whatcom.wa.us/council. Multi-jurisdictional Resolution,2/25/2014 Sponsored by: PDS Proposed by: PDS Introduction date: 2/25/2014 RESOLUTION NO. 2014-013 NON-BINDING MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL RESOLUTION REGARDING POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT ALLOCATIONS WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act (GMA) requires Whatcom County and the cities to review and, if needed, update their respective comprehensive plans by June 30, 2016; and WHEREAS, the GMA requires county and city comprehensive plans to be coordinated and consistent; and WHEREAS, the GMA states that urban growth areas (UGAs) must be revised to accommodate the urban growth projected to occur in the succeeding 20-year planning period by June 30, 2016 (RCW 36.70A.130); and WHEREAS, the GMA, county-wide planning policies and inter-local agreements indicate that review of UGAs should be coordinated between the County and the cities; and WHEREAS, population and employment allocations are a critical component in the comprehensive plan update and UGA review process; and WHEREAS, while final decisions on population and employment allocations will not be made until the comprehensive plan is adopted in 2016, it is important for the County and cities to agree upon preliminary allocations in order to coordinate transportation modeling, capital facility planning, environmental review, and UGA recommendations; and WHEREAS, the County Council has requested staff to work with the cities to develop an effective, robust Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program as part of the 2016 Comprehensive Plan update; and WHEREAS, it's the County's intention that any request to expand an urban growth area will include a proposed interlocal agreement to transfer or purchase development rights (from rural or resource lands) when annexation occurs. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Whatcom County Council hereby agrees to utilize the population and employment growth allocations shown on Exhibit A as the preliminary allocations for initial review of urban growth areas by the County and cities. It is acknowledged that a range of population and employment allocations will also be studied in the UGA review process and that the formal city proposals and the final UGA growth allocations may be different than set forth in this Resolution. APPROVED this 11th day of March 2014. �� ''tttr i r rrrr►'�� AT 1. CIS��. WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL ••••' 4\N c: • WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON Dina Bra•' erk.ii3f the Council Carl Weimer, Council Chair ••••• • •• iki r t t�oo```` APPROVED AS TO FORM: Ciyil Uepuf y Prosecutor 2 Exhibit A Population Employment Growth Growth UGA Allocation Allocation Bellingham 35,918 22,641 Birch Bay 5, 500 545 Blaine 4,414 2,097 Cherry Point 0 890 Columbia Valley 1,345 359 Everson 1,242 602 Ferndale 6,833 2,802 Lynden 6,403 2, 157 Nooksack 1,035 290 Sumas 874 445 Non-UGA 11,217 3,201 TOTAL 74,781 36,029 Notes: 1. The population allocation represents,for preliminary planning purposes, the additional population growth anticipated between 2013 and 2036. 2. The employment allocation represents,for preliminary planning purposes, the additional employment growth anticipated between 2013 and 2036. 3