City representatives requested specific Urban Growth Area (UGA) expansions and zoning adjustments within the 2045 Comprehensive Plan to accommodate future employment, infrastructure, and housing capacity, alongside broad support for a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program. The commission also reviewed the county's Capital Facilities Plan, addressing a $550 million funding deficit and updated transportation impact fees. Furthermore, residents of manufactured home parks testified in favor of protective overlay districts to prevent their affordable housing communities from being rezoned and redeveloped into high-density apartments.
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Clark County Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026 · 1:31:59–1:32:22 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: capital facilities UGA density PUD annexation rezoning plat infrastructure traffic impact comprehensive plan subdivision zoning affordable housing concurrency
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1:30:58 Is Yacolt online? >> I am here. >> Okay, you have five minutes, city of Yacolt. >> Thank you, good evening chair and commissioners, my name is Allison Baker, it's B-A-K-E-R. I'm a planner with Jackson Civil and I'm testifying on behalf of the town of Yacolt. Thank you for the opportunity to comment tonight. Yacolt does not support the preferred alternatives treatment of our residential land capacity. We're asking the commission's help to get the record corrected before the comprehensive plan moves forward. In November 2024, Yacolt's planner of record, Paul Dennis, told this commission that a 20 acre parcel in town had developed into 47 homes over that summer. Consuming land that Yacolt was counting toward its 150 unit housing allocation through 2045.
1:31:54 Mr. Dennis asked the county to reflect this in their capacity numbers. And to consider a possible UGA expansion to replace those units. And that is part of the record from that 2024 meeting. The October 2025 draft EIS proposed a 90 acre UGA expansion for Yacolt. Which included both residential and employment growth. And under that alternative, which became the preferred alternative, Yacolt showed a 118 unit housing surplus. So a total of 228, I'm sorry, 268 units of capacity against the 150 unit target. However, the final EIS published this July cut that UGA expansion to just 12 acres for employment only.
1:32:52 The residential component is gone and Yacolt's housing units changed from the 118 unit surplus to now a seven unit deficit. So it's a 125 unit swing using what seems to be the same capacity estimate. And we couldn't find an explanation for the change. I checked the parcel that Mr. Dennis flagged in 2024 using the county assessor and auditor records,
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direct keyword 1:31:59–1:32:22 capital facilities, UGA, density, PUD, annexation, rezoning, plat, infrastructure, traffic impact, comprehensive plan, subdivision, zoning, affordable housing, concurrency
rcel in town had developed into 47 homes over that summer. Consuming land that Yacolt was counting toward its 150 unit housing allocation through 2045. Mr. Dennis asked the county to reflect this in their capacity numbers. And to consider a possible UGA expansion to replace those units. And that is part of the record from that 2024 meeting. The October 2025 draft EIS proposed a 90 acre UGA expansion for Yacolt. Which included both residential and employment growth. And under that alternative, wh