PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Planning Commission has opened a public comment period for suggestions for minor changes to the city’s comprehensive plan.
The Planning Commission’s focus is to make the document clearer and to eliminate specificity and redundancy, city officials said in a Dec. 28 announcement.
Public comment on the comprehensive plan amendment cycle will be accepted through March 31.
The comprehensive plan amendment is different than the eight-year, state-mandated periodic update. The last update to the Port Angeles Comprehensive Plan was made in 2016.
“The amendment process is meant for minor revisions to the plan that do not change the intent or guidance of the document as it was previously adopted, as well as any changes requested to the Comprehensive Land Use Map,” city officials said in an announcement.
The 106-page plan is available on the city’s website at www.cityofpa.us/.
Comments can be emailed to the city’s Community and Economic Development Department at ced@cityofpa.us or mailed to City of Port Angeles, c/o CED Department, 321 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles, WA 98362.
The 1990 state Growth Management Act requires cities and counties to adopt comprehensive plans to guide future local development.
Comprehensive plans are meant to reflect a community’s vision.
They set goals, policies and objectives that serve as a basis for budgets, capital facilities plans, transportation plans, work plans, level of services and other actions, according to an introduction to the city’s 106-page plan.
The city Planning Commission recommended a 2018 amendment that was intended to improve accuracy, correct errors, add performance standards and incorporate an American Institute of Architects sustainable design assessment into the’s city vision.
A 4-3 majority of the Port Angeles City Council voted last June to remand the amendment to the Planning Commission for a substantive review that meets a June 2019 deadline.
For information on the comprehensive plan amendment process, phone 360-417-4804.
