20F.40.50 Development Guide Amendment – Comprehensive Plan Map and/or Policy Amendment.

20F.40.50-010 Purpose.

This section establishes a procedure and amendment criteria by which RCDG Title 20B, Redmond Comprehensive Plan, may be amended. (Ord. 2118)

20F.40.50-020 Procedure.

The Growth Management Act provides that comprehensive plan amendments can occur no more than once a year with limited exceptions. For any given year, a due date is assigned for receiving applications. Applications received after the due date will be added to the comprehensive plan docket and considered for the following year’s amendments. All Comprehensive Land Use Plan Map amendments shall also be accompanied by concurrent Zoning Map amendments. Comprehensive Plan Amendments shall follow the procedures established in RCDG 20F.30.55 for a Type VI permit process. (Ord. 2118)

20F.40.50-030 Amendment Criteria.

Redmond Comprehensive Plan Policy PI-16 sets out the following comprehensive plan amendment criteria:

(1)    Consistency with the Growth Management Act (GMA), the State of Washington Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development Procedural Criteria, and the King County Countywide Planning Policies (CPPs);

(2)    Consistency with the Comprehensive Plan policies and the designation criteria;

(3)    The capability of the land including the prevalence of sensitive areas;

(4)    Consistency with the preferred growth and development pattern in Section B of the Land Use Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan;

(5)    The capacity of public facilities and whether public facilities and services can be provided cost-effectively at the intensity allowed by the designation;

(6)    Whether the allowed uses are compatible with nearby uses;

(7)    If the purpose of the amendment is to change the allowed use in an area, the need for the land uses that would be allowed by the Comprehensive Plan amendment and whether the amendment would result in the loss of the capacity to meet other needed land uses, especially whether the proposed amendment complies with the policy on no net loss of housing capacity; and

(8)    For issues that have been considered within the last four annual updates or Comprehensive Land Use Plan amendments, whether there has been a change in circumstances that makes the proposed plan designation or policy change appropriate or whether the amendment is needed to remedy a mistake. (Ord. 2118)