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Lend use <br />GPO 2.12B Reserved. <br />GPO 2.13 Electric and natural gas trarnission and distribution facilities may be sited within and <br />through areas of Kittitas County both inside and outside of municipal boundaries, UGAs, Master <br />Pk%mied Resorts, and LAMERDs, including to and through rural areas of Kittitas County. <br />GPO 2.14 Kittitas County will continue to explore incentives for farming and ranching to <br />cantle as significant land uses, for example, innovative cluster platting, tt=fer of development <br />rights, and planned unit developments. <br />GPO 2.15 The development of resource based industries and processing should be encouraged in <br />all a>ress of Kittitas County. When such uses are located in rural and resource lards, criteria shall <br />be developed to ensure the protection of these lands to ensure compatibility with rural character. <br />Consider adding a definition for "resource based industry" to the definitions in Title 17, Zoning. <br />GPO 2.16 Habitat and scenic areas are public benefits which must be provided and financed by <br />the public at large, not at the expense of individual landowners and homeowners. <br />GPO 2.17 Kittitas County may accept by bequest lands for habitat and scenic areas. <br />GPO 2.18 If Kittitas County chooses to acquire additional lands for habitat and scenic areas, it <br />may consider a variety of methods of financing, including grants of State or federal funds, or <br />other instruments. <br />GPO 2.19 The County should recognize the abundance of habitat, scenic area and views on <br />publicly -owned lands when assessing the need for additional such lands. Efforts to connect <br />habitat and open space on private lags to habitat and open space on public lands shall be <br />encouraged. <br />GPO 2.20 Efforts to retain access to public lands shall be encouraged. <br />GPO 2.21 A Designate sufficient available land for specialized industrial uses that are by their <br />nature compatible with residendal, agricultural, recreational, and other general land use types. <br />GPO 2.21 S Promote industrial developmerit within the UGAs by encouraging influsbuctune <br />improvements and new business recruitment. <br />GPO 2.21C Encourage an adequate inventory of developable property to accommodate the siting <br />of new, and the expansion of existing industrial uses. <br />GPO 2.21D Identify areas where mixed commercial and industrial uses can be sited if <br />compatibility is evident. <br />GPO 2.22 Kittitas County shall coordinate with State and federal agencies in the development <br />plans and of land use regulations by providing notification to appropriate agencies of new <br />planning activities. <br />Kittitim County December2016 <br />Comprehensive Plan 2.6 <br />