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

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Marian Meadows Rezone and Subdivision Final Environmental Impact Statement 3-24 GPO 8.20 Development standards for access, lot size, and configuration, fire protection, forest protection, water supply and dwelling unit location should be adopted for development within or adjacent to forest lands. Rural lands of Kittitas County are home sites for thousands of families and provide a unique quality of life for these people. Residents range from resource producers permanently living and working on their own lands to people visiting out-of-state or out-of-area individuals with recreation and vacation homes in the area. Resident people include retired people or young families with members commuting to out-of- area jobs. Residences may be isolated, located in clustered rural neighborhoods, or part of housing developments located on small lots or large land holdings. These residential lots may be located in dense forest or desert sage, along rivers and lakes, or along main thoroughfares to towns and cities. The best description of residential uses on rural lands is diverse and varied. The following general goals, policies, and objectives from the Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan apply to residential uses on rural lands. GPO 8.46 Residential development on rural lands must be in areas that can support adequate private water and sewer systems. GPO 8.47 Insofar as residences are situated where farming, mining, and forestry exits, particular precaution should be taken to minimize the conflict between new residential developments and farm operations. Farming, forestry and mining cannot be expected to curtail normal operation in the interest of residential development. GPO 8.48 The possibilities and benefits of cluster residential developments located in rural lands should be retained. GPO 8.49 Lot size should be determined by provision for water and sewer utilities. GPO 8.50 In the case of planned unit developments (PUDs), only residential PUDs should be permitted outside of UGAs or UGNs. GPO 8.51 Innovations in housing developments such as, but not limited to cluster developments, PUDs, mobile home courts, and density bonuses should be encouraged whenever possible. GPO 8.52 Existing lots of record are vested with the right to construct a single-family dwelling, subject to all applicable requirements in effect at the time of building permit application. GPO 8.53 Where new residential development may be incompatible with resource production activities, any buffering necessary should be carried out by the new development unless an alternative is mutually agreed upon by adjacent landowners. The county has a variety of policies for LAMIRDs IN GPO 8.67 to 8.77 that apply to areas so designated in the vicinity. These policies, however, do not apply to the Marian Meadows site.