Planning and Development Services

Community Planning

The Community Planning division of the Department is responsible for work on the Comprehensive Plan and its components and other legislative and long-range land use planning projects.

How to Comment

How to properly submit comments on the 2019 Docket legislative land use proposals.

Current Projects

Project Name	Status	Expected Completion
2018 Comprehensive Plan Amendments	Completed	December 2018
2019 Comprehensive Plan Amendments	In Progress	December 2019
2020/2021 Comprehensive Plan Amendments	Hold	December 2020
2020 Countywide Planning Policies Cleanup	Completed	July 2020
2020 Flood Damage Prevention Update	Completed	December 2020
Agtourism	In Progress
Capital Facilities Update	Completed	December 2018
Duration of Preliminary Approval of Short Subdivisions	Completed	February 2018
Latecomer's Agreements	In Progress	July 2019
Non-Motorized Trails in Industrial Forest	Completed	August 2017
Permit Procedures Update	Workshops	2019
Setbacks Reform	Research	2019
Shoreline Master Program Update	In progress	July 2019
Stormwater Code Update	In progress	September 2019

Historical Projects

• Comprehensive Plan Amendments and Related Documents
  
  
  • Annual Comprehensive Plan Amendments:
    2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016
  • Envision Skagit 2060 (October 2011)
  • Sanfi Acres Comprehensive Plan Amendment Remand (2009)
• Skagit Countywide UGA Open Space Concept Plan (2009)
• 2005 GMA Update
  
• 2005 GMA Update Population and Employment Forecasting and Allocation (December 2003)
• Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (July 2003)
• Growth Management Indicators (GMI) Report (November 2002)
• Coordinated Water System Plan: Regional Supplement (July 2002)
  
  
• Subarea Plans and Information
  
  
• Alger Community Plan
• Bayview Ridge Subarea Plan
• Edison Subarea Clean Water District
• Guemes Island Subarea Plan
• Hamilton Development Authority
• South Fidalgo Subarea Planning Process (not adopted)

• Development Code Amendments

• 2011 Annual Code Amendments
• 2009 Miscellaneous Code Amendments
• 2016 Comprehensive Plan Update
• 2017-2022 Capital Facilities Plan
• Ag-Critical Areas Ordinance
• Airport Environs Overlay Update
• Amendment to SCC 14.34.150(8)(c)
• Building Codes and Fee Schedule 2016 Update
• Campground/Master Planned Resort code amendments
• Conservation and Development Incentives Program
• Conservation Subdivisions
• Critical Areas Ordinance 2006 Update
• Dog and Cat Kennel Regulations
• Floodplain Management Regulations
• I-502 Marijuana Implementation
• Pipeline Safety
• Planning & Land Use Legislation Ordinance
• Revisions to SCC Chapter 14.44 Enforcement/Penalties
• Stormwater Permit 2015 Code Update
• Transfer of Development Rights Project
• Wetland Mitigation Banks in Ag-NRL