1/16/2019 THURSTON COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE PLANNING COMMISSION – JANUARY 16, 2019 Chapter 3 – Natural Resource Lands Overview PLANNING HIERARCHY Comprehensive Plan Chapters Introduction 1. WA State Growth Management Act Land Use 2. (RCW 36.70A) 3. Natural Resource Industries Housing 4. Countywide Transportation 5. Planning Policies Capital Facilities Program (CFP) 6. 7. Utilities Thurston County 8. Economic Development Comprehensive Plan Environment 9. 10. Historic Resources 11. Health Zoning & Development Subarea Plans UGA Joint Plans 12. Amendments Regulations 1
1/16/2019 OVERVIEW & MATERIALS Chapter 3 – Natural Resource Lands Memorandum 1 – chapter overview Chapter 3 text – redline and clean versions Map N-1: Designated Long Term Agriculture & Forestry Map N-2: Designated Mineral Resource Lands Memorandum 3 – Long Term Forestry Options Attachment A & B – Countywide & Detailed Map Options Attachment C: LTF Land Use Designation Crosswalk OVERVIEW & MATERIALS Proposed Code Changes Associated with Mineral Lands Update Memorandum 2 – overview of code changes Redline changes to Chapters 17.20, 18.04, 20.30B, 20.54, 20.03 Handout: Chapter 3 – Policy Decisions Cheat Sheet 2
1/16/2019 GMA: NATURAL RESOURCE INDUSTRIES GOAL “The following goals are adopted to guide the development and adoption of comprehensive plans and development regulations: …(8) Natural resource industries. Maintain and enhance natural resource- based industries, including productive timber, agricultural, and fisheries industries. Encourage the conservation of productive forestlands and productive agricultural lands, and discourage incompatible uses.” - 36.70A.020 RCW GMA: NATURAL RESOURCE INDUSTRIES GOAL “Successful achievement of the natural resource industries goal…requires the conservation of a land base sufficient in size and quality to maintain and enhance those industries and the development and use of land use techniques that discourage uses incompatible with the management of designated lands.” - WAC 365-190-070 3
1/16/2019 CHAPTER 3 – GMA REQUIREMENTS Designate agricultural lands, forest lands, and mineral resource lands 1. Not characterized by urban growth Of long-term commercial significance Adopt development regulations “to assure the conservation” of those lands 2. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE: SCOPE OF WORK Natural Resource Element Update map of designated mineral resource lands Review policies for agricultural lands, limiting nonagricultural uses Incorporate references to VSP Review Long-Term Forestry designations* * Indicates optional item approved by BoCC in the SOW and 2017/2018 budget. 4
1/16/2019 PUBLIC FEEDBACK PUBLIC FEEDBACK Spring 2018 Open Houses MRL Focus Group Agriculture Advisory Committee SPD Advisory Committee Stakeholder meetings 5
1/16/2019 PUBLIC FEEDBACK Conserving resource lands, including outside designated areas Addressing changing economics and demographics of agriculture Ensuring sustainable forestry and mining Minimizing impacts of resource industries on surrounding uses and environment Connecting natural resource lands to other areas of the Comprehensive Plan CHAPTER 3: AGRICULTURE 2040 Average age of farmer = 59 Farm size # of farms on < 10 acres 70% of farmland is expected to change ownership in next 20 years 6,500 acres of farmland converted to other uses, 2000-2015 Farmland with potential to conversion = 22,000+ acres 6
1/16/2019 WHAT IS CHANGING IN CHAPTER 3? AGRICULTURE Updated background information Updated and expanded information on land conservation and incentive programs Updated action items Not changing: Designation criteria or mapping of LTA (not part of the scope) CHAPTER 3: AQUACULTURE Limited language updates proposed Coordinating this section with the ongoing SMP update 7
1/16/2019 CHAPTER 3: FORESTRY Updated language and action items Review of LTF THURSTON COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE PLANNING COMMISSION – JANUARY 16, 2019 Chapter 3 – Natural Resource Lands Long T erm Forestry 8
1/16/2019 BACKGROUND Review of Long T erm Forestry designation was an optional update for the periodic review of Comp Plan. The BoCC approved this review in 2016: • Review current designation criteria (August, 1993) • Interview major timber companies • Review long-term forestry designation and zone STATE GUIDANCE ON DESIGNATION OF FOREST LANDS WAC 365-190-060 Counties must consider effects of proximity Designated at the county-level; not reviewed to population areas, including: on a parcel by parcel basis. Availability of public services and facilities Proximity to urban and suburban areas and Land should be designated based on 3 rural settlements factors: Size of parcels Not already characterized by growth Compatibility & intensity of nearby uses Property tax classification Used or capable of forestry productions Local economic conditions Land has long-term commercial-significance History of land development permits (predominantly higher forest land grades) Secondary benefits may be considered 9
1/16/2019 LONG TERM FORESTRY DESIGNATION CRITERIA Maintain a block size of 5,000+ acres Outside UGA Consider property tax classification Located away from urban/suburban & rural settlements Favorable economic conditions Predominantly large parcels, Larger parcels with forest land grade of 2 in Thurston County is 640 acres History of development permits nearby Nearby development and land use is compatible with long-term forestry in Thurston County typically RRR 1/5 LONG TERM FORESTRY SURVEY Staff surveyed major forestry landowners in the County Contacted 6 landowners including: private landowner, CGVI, Green Diamond, Port Blakely, Weyerhaeuser, and Jorgensen. 10
1/16/2019 SURVEY RESULTS Private landowner in a fringe area not currently using land as forestry. Prompted staff to review other fringe areas. Generally, the designation criteria works well for forest land in Thurston County. Rural forest lands are at higher risk for conversion. County should have tools available for these lands to remain in forestry. Forestry in rural zoning can be beneficial for smaller timber owners because it allows for flexibility to adapt to changing market conditions. PARCELS IDENTIFIED FOR POTENTIAL LAND USE AMENDMENT Staff conducted a high-level review of the fringe areas of the LTF designation. Seven parcels (±173.52 acres) identified for a land use amendment to remove from LTF to an alternative zone, based on: Current and historic use of the property Size of parcel Forest land grade Nearby development patterns 11
1/16/2019 CONSIDERATION OF 3-PARCEL BLOCK Supportive of Removal No Contact from LTF DECISION F-1 Unsupportive of removal from LTF CONSIDERATION OF 3-PARCEL BLOCK DECISION F-1 12
DECISION F-1 DECISION F-1 CONSIDERATION OF 3-PARCEL BLOCK CONSIDERATION OF 3-PARCEL BLOCK 1/16/2019 13
DECISION F-2 DECISION F-2 CONSIDERATION OF PARCEL 09880001002 CONSIDERATION OF PARCEL 09880001002 Contacted, no response 1/16/2019 14
DECISION F-3 DECISION F-2 CONSIDERATION OF PARCEL 13822130100 CONSIDERATION OF PARCEL 09880001002 Contacted, no preference 1/16/2019 15
DECISION F-3 DECISION F-3 CONSIDERATION OF PARCEL 13822130100 CONSIDERATION OF PARCEL 13822130100 1/16/2019 16
DECISION F-4 DECISION F-4 CONSIDERATION OF 2-PARCEL BLOCK CONSIDERATION OF 2-PARCEL BLOCK Supportive of Removal from LTF 1/16/2019 17
1/16/2019 CONSIDERATION OF 2-PARCEL BLOCK DECISION F-4 SUMMARY OF COMMUNICATIONS PARCEL Decision LANDOWNER CONTACTED? 13816230000 F-1 Supportive of removal from LTF 13816230200 F-1 Unsupportive of block removal from LTF 13816240000 F-1 Unable to contact 09880001002 F-2 Letter mailed & received 13822130100 F-3 Letter mailed & received 21621200100 & 21621300100 F-4 Supportive of removal from LTF 18
1/16/2019 SUMMARY OF LONG TERM FORESTRY DECISIONS Decision F(1) - Decision F(2) - Decision F(3) - Decision F(4) - Considers block N of Considers parcel Considers parcel Considers parcels Hwy 8 - parcels 09880001002 13822130100 21621200100 and 13816230000, 21621300100 13816230200, and 13816240000 F1-(A) F2-(A) F3-(A) F4-(A) T I O N S No Change No Change No Change No Change F1-(B) F2-(B) F3-(B) F4-(B) Amend 3 parcels from LTF Amend parcel from LTF to Amend parcel from LTF to Amend parcels from LTF to to RRR 1/5 RRR 1/5 RRR 1/5 RRR 1/5 O P F1-(C) Amend 2 parcels from LTF to RRR 1/5 THURSTON COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE PLANNING COMMISSION – JANUARY 16, 2019 Chapter 3 – Natural Resource Lands Mineral Resource Lands 19
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