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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 />GPO 3.12 Encourage 1he 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 />OPO 3.14 Designate high-density residential land use zones such as PUDs, cluster development, <br />and MPRs outside of Urban Growth Areas. <br />GPO 3 .15 Provide for a range of housing types within Kittitas Cowity. <br />GPO 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 future populations while maintaining <br />the nu-al character of Kittitas 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 ColDlty. <br />GPO 3.20 Provide housing which is supportive of economic opportunities. <br />OPO 3.21 Allow for the placement of Accessory Dwelling Units as a permitted use within the <br />Urban Growth Areas and as a Conditional Use in the areas owide the UGAs. <br />GPO 3.22 Encourage and allow for mixed-use development and high-density development within <br />the Cities end 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 defmiti.on in state law. <br />GPO 3.24 Kittitas Comrty 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 z.oning code. These <br />recommendations of change to the z.oning code are consistent with the consideration of alternate <br />land use designations currently being studied by Kittitas County. Specific references ere 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 zone" in the strategies refers to those residential <br />Kittitas County <br />Comprehensive Plan 3.5 <br />December 2016