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Housing Element <br />GPO 3.10 Encourage mixed use, commercial and residential development, in areas, which need <br />to provide housing for employees. <br />GPO 3.11 Encourage the development of temporary housing for farm workers. <br />GPD 3.12 Encourage the development of innovative applications of technology in housing. <br />GPO 3.13 Provide for housing to be developed which is affordable to all economic groups. <br />GPO 3.14 Designate high-density residential land use zones such as PVDs, cluster development, <br />and MPRs outside of Urban Growth Areas. <br />GPO 3.15 Provide for a range of housing types within Kittitas County. <br />GPU 3.16 Evaluate the impact of proposed policies and procedures on the cost of developing, <br />preserving or maintaining of residential units prior to adoption. <br />GPO 3.17 Provide a sufficient number. of housing units for furore populations while maintaining <br />the Waal character of KitdW County. <br />GPO 3.18 Provide sufficient housing units while maintaining environmental quality. <br />GPO 3.19 Provide housing options to allow residents with special housing needs to live as <br />independently as possible throughout the County. <br />GPO 3.20 Provide housing which is supportive of economic opportunities. <br />GPO 3.21 Allow for the placement of Accessory Dwelling units as a permitted use within the <br />Urbain Growth Areas and as a Conditional Use in the areas outside the UGAs. <br />GPO 3.22 Encourage and allow for mixed-use development and high-density development within <br />the Cities and Urban Growth Areas. <br />GPO 3.23 Kittitas County shall support policies that increase and maintain the availability of <br />affordable housing, throughout the County. Affordable housing definitions shall be consistent <br />with the definition in state law. <br />GPO 3.24 Kittitas County shall employ a variety of strategies to increase and maintain the <br />availability of affordable housing, <br />3.5. Kittitas County Housing Strategies <br />The goals, which have been developed to guide future housing development in Kittitas County <br />can be achieved by adopting the previously stated policies and implementing the following <br />strategies. These strategies include several recommended changes to the zoning code. These <br />recommendations of change to the zoning code are consistent with the consideration of alternate <br />land use designations currently being studied by Kit u s County. Specific references are not made <br />to a particular zone at this time, since more than one land use designation system is being <br />proposed. Instead the term "higher density acme" in the strategies refers to those residential <br />KRUtes County December 2016 <br />Comprehensive Plan 3.5 <br />