2017-2037 Comp Plan Update Enabling Ordinance with Exhibit A

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Kittitas County December 2016 Comprehensive Plan Sewer and water, together with all private utilities, are readily available in the privately developed portions of the area north of the sewage treatment plant. Sewer and water utilities do not extend south from the treatment plant. 2.5.5 Development Constraints There are few development constraints in the privately owned area near Exit 54, where most development in this sub-area is likely to occur. Privately owned land to the southwest, which is now part of the ski slopes, would face constraints of topography and the availability of sewer and water. Privately owned lands in the southernmost end of the planning area contain some steep slopes. The cost of extending utilities to this area may be prohibitive, so soil suitability for on-site water and septic systems may limit development potential. 3. Land Use 3.1 Overview This updated comprehensive plan addresses many issues related to land use in the Planning Area, including setting goals and objectives for different land uses and integrating the land use policies and objectives of various entities and groups including Kittitas County, King County, the Forest Service, the Pass community, the ski area, and private landowners. At the start of the current process, existing plans, documentation and information related to land use at the Pass were reviewed for continued relevance and applicability to present and expected future land use situations to be guided by an updated Comprehensive Plan. The items reviewed included: 1. The existing Snoqualmie Pass Sub-Area Comprehensive Plan-Master Plan (the plan being updated). As part of this review, the Comprehensive Plans for Kittitas County and King County were reviewed as well. 2. The Snoqualmie Pass Adaptive Management Area (SPAMA) Plan, which is one of a network of AMAs established in 1994 by the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP). As Forest Service and private lands are intermingled in a checkerboard pattern in the Planning area, land use will have an impact on adjoining property. The SPAMA recognizes that population has and will grow, and the increasing amount and variety of outdoor recreational activities on both public and private lands. This growth, as well as logging activities, have impacted habitat in the I-90 corridor. Consequently, the AMA was prepared as a comprehensive plan for providing late- successional forest habitat on the ‘checkerboard lands’. One of the central themes in the AMA plan was the recognition of the Pass area as a “critical connective link in the north- south movement of organisms in the Cascades,” including the concept that large gains in connectivity could be made only by land exchanges to provide unfragmented blocks of land. In its adoption of the AMA, the Forest Service noted that the adopted standards and