Planning & Community
Development -
Urban Growth Area Committee

The Urban Growth Advisory Committee was established to assist in a comprehensive analysis of the zoning in the Urban Growth Area as the next step in implementing Washington County’s 2002 Comprehensive Plan.

TASKS ASSIGNED TO THE URBAN GROWTH AREA ADVISDORY COMMITTEE

Receive citizen input during public meetings and make recommendations based on citizen remarks regarding zoning in the Urban Growth Area. 

Review Subdivision, Zoning and Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances to identify land use related obstacles to affordable housing.

Review Subdivision, Zoning and Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances to identify opportunities for streamlining in those regulations as incentives for development in the growth area.  

Identify transferable development rights (TDR) receiving areas in the UGA if the decision is made to create a TDR program. (Tentative and dependent upon results of study and County Commissioner action)

Make recommendations or proposals on Workforce Housing Task Force recommendations regarding manufactured housing design guidelines and in-clusionary zoning. 

Review and make recommendations on Planning Commission and staff’s final proposal for the rezoning in the Urban Growth Area, that is, the proposed changes to the applicable text of the Zoning Ordinance and the application of zoning designations to properties in the growth area.

Listed below are minutes from previous advisory board meetings:

2009

2008

2007