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the highest priority and where the subdivision and development of lands for uses and activities <br />incompatible with resource management are discouraged. <br />Conservation Plats: The project is being proposed under KCC Chapter 16.09 Cluster Platting, <br />Conservation and Agriculture Platting. KCC Chapter 16.09.025(2) allows Conservation Plats in <br />the Forest and Range zone for projects encompassing a minimum of 40 acres. Conservation <br />plats must demonstrate consistency with development regulations established in KCC <br />16.09.040(6) in addition to KCC 16.12, Preliminary Plats. <br />Deemed Complete. A Long Plat (Conservation Plat) and a Shoreline Substantial Development <br />application were submitted to Kittitas County Community Development Services on December <br />18, 2019. The applications were deemed complete on January 29, 2020 <br />9. Notice of Application: The site was posted pursuant to KCC 15A.03.110 on February 19, <br />2020. Two posting sites were established near two primary access routes. A Notice of <br />Application was mailed to all state and local agencies/departments with potential interest in the <br />project as required by KCC 15A.03.060, as well as to adjacent landowners located within five <br />hundred (500) feet of any portion of the boundary of the proposal's contiguous tax parcels on <br />March 9, 2020. Due to the Shoreline Substantial Development application that accompanied the <br />long plat application a 30-day comment period was required in accordance with Table A in <br />KCC 15A. The comment period for this notice ended on April 8, 2020. <br />10. Shoreline Substantial Development: The proposed project includes a development area within a <br />Rural Conservancy Shoreline designation. Any development within shoreline jurisdiction <br />requires consistency with several sub sections of Title 17B including; 1713.06.140 Residential <br />Development, 17B.05.020B General Regulations for Environmental Protection, and <br />17B.07.060(2) Substantial Development Permits <br />11. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: The Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan designates the proposal <br />site as "Rural and Resource Lands." Kittitas County has established the following goals and <br />policies to guide activities that are designated in these lands. These goals and policies were <br />developed in response to identified needs within the county, and support the County Wide <br />Planning Policies: <br />11.1 RR-G25: Provide areas of low intensity land use activities within the agriculture and <br />forest activities. <br />11.1.1 The project proposal will establish three (3) low intensity development areas <br />on lots between 2 and 5 acres. At least 70% of the total acreage will be <br />retained as open space in perpetuity, protecting the land from future <br />development. KCC 16.09 established Conservation Platting as an approved <br />method of development within the Forest and Range zone and Rural <br />Working land use designation. <br />11.2 RR-P40: Conveyance instruments including plats and short plats, development <br />permits and building permits, within 500 feet of land designated as Rural Working <br />lands or Resource Lands shall contain a notice to potential buyers and residents as <br />directed within RCW 36.70A.060(1)(b). <br />11.2.1 This decision includes a plat note condition that will provide notice to <br />potential buyers and residents addressing the potential conflict between <br />LP-19-00003 <br />Wallace Ranch Conservation Plat <br />Page 2 of 19 <br />