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

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Marian Meadows Rezone and Subdivision Final Environmental Impact Statement 3-23 GPO 8.6 An expanded public lands element may be added to the Comprehensive Plan before 1999, which contains strategies for county involvement in decisions and action on public lands within the rural lands designated area. GPO 8.7 Private owners should not be expected to provide public benefits without just compensation. If the citizens desire open space, or habitat, or scenic vistas that would require a sacrifice by the landowner or homeowner, all citizens should be prepared to shoulder their share of the sacrifice. GPO 8.8 Voluntary, cooperation-seeking, incentive-based strategies will be sought in directing specific uses or prohibitions of uses on rural lands. GPO 8.9 Projects or developments which result in the significant conservation of rural lands or rural character will be encouraged. GPO 8.10 Factors within municipalities that encourage movement onto rural lands should be identified and referred to the municipality. GPO 8.11 Existing and traditional uses should be protected and supported while allowing as much as possible for diversity, progress, experimentation, development and choice in keeping with the retention of rural lands. GPO 8.13 Methods other than large lot zoning to reduce densities and prevent sprawl should be investigated. The following policies apply to the portions of the site adjacent to national forest and other resource lands. GPO 8.15 All conveyance instruments, including plats, short plats as well as other development activities of a residential nature on or within 1,000 feet of land designated as resource lands, shall contain a notice which states: “The subject property is within or adjacent to existing resource areas on which a variety of activities may occur that are not compatible with residential development for certain periods of limited duration. Resource activities performed in accordance with county, state, and federal laws are not subject to legal action as public nuisances. Kittitas County has adopted Right to Farm provisions contained in Section 17.74 of the Kittitas County Code.” GPO 8.16 Growth in the rural lands should be managed in a manner that minimizes impacts on adjacent natural resource lands. GPO 8.17 Support for right-to-farm ordinances should be continued and expanded. GPO 8.19 Clustering of residential development adjacent to commercial forest and agricultural land should be encouraged. The open space in the clustered development may buffer adjacent natural resource land from development.