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AGENDA STAFF REPORT
AGENDA DATE: April 4, 2017
ACTION REQUESTED: Approve Resolution to Adopt the 2037 Population and Employment and
Allocation Projection for Kittitas County as Recommended by the Kittitas
County Conference of Governments
BACKGROUND: Kittitas County, in its effort to update the 2006 Comprehensive Plan, is required to
update its population projections as a cornerstone to justify policies, procedures and
regulations designed to guide land use decisions made within the County. For almost
two years the Kittitas County Conference of Governments (KCCOG) has reviewed
issues related to past population distribution and anticipation of future population
allocations. Through its review of the County-wide Planning Policies and discussion
of population distribution, it was determined by this body that new projections of
population and eventual employment should be made.
With efforts by the County staff and through contracting the professional services of
private consultants with expertise in population and employment analysis, a model
was developed to present to representatives of governing jurisdictions with the
County to discuss and come to agreement upon population and employment
projections that will exist in the County by 2037. Through multiple meetings and
discussions over the past two years, KCCOG has agreed upon a projection for
population and employment to the year 2037. At a March 15, 2017 meeting, the
KCCOG made a unanimous decision to recommend that the Board of County
Commissioners adopt these numbers and distribution as the projections that will
guide the development of the 2037 Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan. These
numbers are provided in the Resolution placed before you for consideration.
INTERACTION: CDS, Board of County Commissioners
ATTACHMENTS: Resolution to adopt population and employment projections to 2037
STAFF
RECOMMENDATION: CDS Planning Official recommends to the Board of County Commissioners to
approve the proposed Resolution
HANLDING: Presentation to the Board by Kittitas County Community Development Services.
RESPONSIBLE STAFF: Robert “Doc” Hansen, Planning Official