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01 Re: Comments on the Kittitas County 2026 Comprehensive Plan up a�ement #001 <br /> March 2, 2026 <br /> Page 13 <br /> • For uses that cannot be located in a different location, such as highway <br /> expansions, mitigate adverse impacts including in those areas with significant <br /> health disparities. <br /> • Equitably site beneficial uses such as trails, parks, and schools and prioritize <br /> new investments in underserved areas. <br /> • Equitably plan for capital facilities and invest in underserved or overburdened <br /> areas. <br /> • Protect the resources needed by all communities including areas experiencing <br /> environmental health disparities and by underserved areas such as surface and <br /> ground water quality and quantity. <br /> • Meaningful involve all affected people in these decisions and comprehensive <br /> plan updates. <br /> Adopt policies, programs, and regulations to address increased wildfire risk. <br /> See 10.7.5 Wildfire on page 171. <br /> Because of climate change and urban development in hazard-prone areas, <br /> insurance is becoming increasingly difficult to get for housing and development in <br /> these areas limiting the ability sell or use these developments.36 We need to direct <br /> growth away from these areas. We recommend a new policy to address this need <br /> and RCW 36.7oA.070(9)(e)(i)(C) to read as follows: <br /> XX Direct grnwtl_, away from natural hazards created or aggravated by <br /> climate p, including landslides, floQding, ikely to <br /> effects of changes to teijiDgerature and precipitation 12a terns by not <br /> _ y of uses in_tliese areas, aild no <br /> Ata�ating �ese areas for residentialdevelopment_Qr <br /> Cher types of u- ian �rawth. <br /> In addition, the wildfire policies are not specific as RCW 36.7oA.070(9)(e)(i) <br /> requires. For example, CR-P16 calls on the County to "[i]dentify and implement <br /> strategies for reducing wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface." But the time <br /> 36 Mona Hemmati, Ian P. Gray &Steven G.Bowen, The growing void in the U.S. homeowners <br /> insurance market: who should bear the rising cost of climate change?4:35 NPJ CLIMATE ACTION P. 1 <br /> (2025) last accessed on March 2, 2026, at: tt . Iwww.natur��lartielesls4.g168-o2s-o0231-8 <br /> and available at the link on the last page of this letter with the filename: "s44168-025-00231- <br /> 8.pdf." This online journal is peer-reviewed. Nature portfolio peer review webpage last accessed <br /> on Feb. g, 2026, at: littl2s:/IWww.iiature.com/iiature-t3ortfo-]tLole—clifc)i-ia1-palicieslneer-review and <br /> at the link on the last page of this letter with the filename: "Peer Review—Nature Portfolio.pdf." <br />