Mineral Resource Lands Update

Draft Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Zoning Mineral Lands Ordinance, and Right to Practice Forestry, Mining, and Agriculture for Public Hearing to be held September 29, 2020, 10:30am BOCC Hearing

Documents adopted by Planning Commission on July 15, 2020 for review by BOCC.

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The purpose of this public participation plan and scope of work is in support of the County efforts to review and consider updates to provisions of the comprehensive plan and development regulations (e.g., zoning) that pertain to mineral resource lands to complete the County’s periodic review and evaluation under RCW 36.70A.130 and RCW 36.70A.131 of the Washington State Growth Management Act (GMA). Implementation of this public participation plan is also in response to the remand order by the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board (WWGMHB), Case No. 18-2-0006, for the County to conduct further review and public participation process related mineral resource land designations and regulations consistent with RCW 36.70A.131 and guided by GMA public participation requirements.

This Participation Plan and Scope of Work is made necessary by decisions of the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board from April and May of 2019. In those decisions the Growth Board ruled Clallam County had failed to comply with state law regarding “public participation” with respect to the required “periodic review” of the Comprehensive Plan provisions and development regulations of the County that designate, regulate and protect locations in the County where mineral resources lie or are being extracted that must occur approximately every 7 years.

Clallam County’s current mineral resource land designations and development regulations are primarily based on land use planning efforts that were conducted more than 20 years ago. As part of the periodic review of comprehensive plan and development regulations, the GMA in RCW 36.70A.131 requires review of mineral resource land designations and regulations.

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The Clallam County Board of County Commissioners approved Resolution 68 - 2019

See Resolution and Adopted Participation Plan:

Clallam County Public Participation Plan and Scope of Work Mineral Resource Lands Designation, Policies and Regulations

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TAKE OUR SURVEY

Rules and Requirements for Mineral Extraction and Processing Activity

Public Participation Workshop Schedule:

The Clallam County Department of Community Development will hold four community work shops in September and October 2019, at the city of Forks, Port Angeles, Sequim, and Clallam Bay/Sekiu.

The workshops will feature a presentation covering four basic subject areas:

Overview on the County’s Mineral Resource Lands.
Receive input from the community on possible changes to the County’s Mineral Resource Lands.
Discuss the desired outcomes from what is being proposed.
Discuss the need and Washington state requirements on Mineral Resource Lands.

Date	Location	Time	Workshop Locations
Tuesday September 3, 2019	Forks	6:00 – 7:30 pm	Forks City Hall 500 E. Division Street Forks, WA 98331
Tuesday September 17, 2019	Port Angeles	6:00 – 7:30 pm	Clallam County Courthouse 223 E. 4^th Street Port Angeles, WA
Tuesday September 24, 2019	Sequim	6:00 – 7:30 pm	Sequim City Hall 152 W. Cedar Street Sequim, WA 98382
Tuesday October 1, 2019	Clallam Bay-Sekiu	6:00 – 7:30 pm	Clallam Bay-Sekiu Community Center 16801 Highway 112 Clallam Bay, WA 98362