PD-17-00001 Marian Meadows Full Record with Index (2)

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17 KCC 17A Critical Areas As conditioned, the proposal is consistent with KCC 17A Critical Areas. VII. CONSISTENCY WITH THE KITTIAS COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Numerous Goals, Policies, and Objectives (GPOs) apply to this proposal. These include GPOs 3.14, 3.15, GPO 3.13, GPO 2.14, GPO 2.7, GPO 8.33, GPO 8.5, GPO 8.56, and GPO 8.8 GPO 2.7 Kittitas County will maintain a flexible balance of land uses which will protect, preserve, and enhance the rural character, historical forest lands, agricultural industries, mineral lands, and high quality environment. As conditioned, the project meets this GPO. It promotes a flexible balance of land uses by concentrating development high density area on the western side, and leaves low density development to the east, while including RV facilities GPO 2.14 Kittitas County will continue to explore incentives for farming and ranching to continue as significant land uses, for example, innovative cluster platting, transfer of development rights, and planned unit developments. As conditioned, the proposal is consistent with this GPO. The planned unit development creates incentives for development while leaving surrounding agricultural lands intact. GPO 3.13 Provide for housing to be developed which is affordable to all economic groups. The mix of single and multi-family housing proposed is consistent with this GPO. GPO 3.14 Designate high-density residential land use zones such as PUDs, cluster development, and MPRs outside of Urban Growth Areas. Located outside of Urban Growth Areas, the proposed location is consistent with this GPO. GPO 3.15 Provide for a range of housing types within Kittitas County. The mix of single and multi- family housing proposed is consistent with this GPO. GPO 8.33 Planned Unit Developments (PUD) in rural areas can only be established where such developments will not result in high density environments which require urban services and reduce maintenance of rural character. The proposal meets the underlying density for the Rural-5 zone. If the applicant provides support for fire, hospital and school services as part of a development agreement, impacts to rural levels of services will be mitigated for consistency with this GPO. GPO 8.5 In order to protect and preserve Resource Lands, non-resource development and activities on adjacent Rural lands shall require preservation of adjacent vegetation, existing landforms (e.g. ravines) or use of other methods that provide functional separation from the resource land use. As proposed, the project is consistent with this GPO. The northern part of the property bordering the Commercial Forest in the Rural Resource Land Use Designation will be kept primarily in its natural vegetative state.