GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 17.125
ESSENTIAL PUBLIC FACILITIES
Sections:
17.125.010 Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to identify means of siting essential public facilities within the rural zones of Lewis County. Within incorporated IUGAs [UGAs] city criteria shall prevail. [Ord. 1269 §36, 2016; Ord. 1170B, 2000]
17.125.030 Procedure.
(1) Essential Public Facilities - Major. All major essential facilities may be considered through a Type V comprehensive plan amendment and rezone per Chapter 17.05 LCC. The sponsoring agency may request such an amendment. Areas of specific consideration shall include the need for the facility, the ability of the community to provide adequate public facilities and meet concurrency requirements, the impact on designated resource lands, and the ability of the community to adequately mitigate, or compensate, where appropriate, local residences significantly impacted by the project.
(2) When consistent with requirements in the comprehensive plan and zoning code, future development of essential public facilities may be considered as part of a Type III master plan submitted pursuant to Chapter 17.120 LCC1.
(3) Essential Public Facilities - Local. All facilities identified as essential public facilities - local shall be processed as a Type III application per Chapter 17.05 LCC.
(a) Special Conditions.
(i) The use is located in accordance with the criteria identified in a comprehensive plan adopted by the service provider.
(ii) If outside a UGA, the use can be accommodated without requiring urban services or promoting urban growth in rural areas. [Ord. 1269 §36, 2016; Ord. 1179, 2002; Ord. 1170B, 2000]
Code reviser’s note: Chapter 17.120 LCC was repealed by Ord. 1292.