PORT ANGELES — Clallam County won’t pursue any of three annexation alternatives proposed last month by Bay Loop Neighborhood Association President Francis Cummings.
Cummings’ organization has actively opposed Port Angeles’ proposed annexation of residential and commercial areas along U.S. Highway 101 between DelGuzzi Drive and Morse Creek.
The area includes several car dealers, Wal-Mart, Les Schwab Tire Center and a new Safeway supermarket complex as well as the Gales Addition, Bay Loop and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods.
Cummings, leader of the anti-annexation movement, told the commissioners last month that an attorney had presented him with three alternatives to allowing Port Angeles to annex its Urban Growth Area east of the city.
The state Growth Management Act requires cities to establish boundaries for future growth in consultation with the county.
Cities can’t annex territory outside these Urban Growth Areas, although boundaries can be adjusted annually.
Cummings’ three proposed alternatives were:
* Designate the area east of Port Angeles as a county-controlled Urban Growth Area similar to Carlsborg.
* Abolish the Urban Growth Area designation and replace it with a “rural area of intensive development” designation.
* Designate the area a new fully contained community under the county’s control.
County staff concluded that the proposals could not be undertaken easily or unilaterally and any actions taken solely to block annexation would be unsuccessful.
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