Community members strongly opposed the comprehensive plan's "preferred alternative" to expand Urban Growth Areas (UGAs) into agricultural lands, arguing that current boundaries already contain sufficient buildable capacity for projected growth. Public testimony emphasized that unchecked sprawl and increased density would strain existing infrastructure, violate transportation concurrency requirements, and fail to produce genuinely affordable housing. Additionally, manufactured home residents advocated for protective overlay zoning to prevent displacement, while one rural property owner requested a comprehensive plan map correction to fix a density zoning error on his land.
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Clark County Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026 · 2:53:25–2:53:38 · 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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2:52:24 I don't want my taxes going up in order to, somebody else speaking, in order to cover development growth. And I don't want traffic to get worse because the county can't afford the infrastructure needed for new development. So that's it. Thank you. Have a great night. >> Thank you for your comments, ma'am. >> Next up, we have first name Heidi. Heidi, I've sent you an unmute request. >> Hello, my name is Heidi Pozzo, H-E-I-D-I-P-O-Z-Z-O. This plan adds density where the, excuse me, the county's records say it cannot be served. Not the roads, not the creeks, not the schools, not the parks. On concurrency, more density is being added to the 179th and Salmon Creek corridors on roads
2:53:22 that are already project problems. In May, in the 174th Street subdivision case, the applicant's traffic engineer identified road segments that exceeded the county's adopted .9 volume to capacity standard. The GMA requires a concurrency ordinance that denies development dropping a road below the standard. Clark County has one. These segments fail and the developments are approved anyway. Under a code section never written to approve a failing test. A program never says no is not a concurrency program. The GMA also requires the housing and transportation elements to balance. That cannot be determined here. This plan requires bike lanes and paths on 106 miles of county road. That space comes from buying land or existing lanes. The county has not designated which roads lose lanes, so none of it is modeled.
2:54:21 The analysis was run on the network as it exists today. The housing this plan assigns here needs to be reassessed. Stormwater. Two creeks take all the water from this corridor. Whipple and Mill both too warm and both eroding.
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direct keyword 2:53:25–2:53:38 capital facilities, UGA, density, PUD, annexation, rezoning, plat, infrastructure, traffic impact, comprehensive plan, subdivision, zoning, affordable housing, concurrency
cords say it cannot be served. Not the roads, not the creeks, not the schools, not the parks. On concurrency, more density is being added to the 179th and Salmon Creek corridors on roads that are already project problems. In May, in the 174th Street subdivision case, the applicant's traffic engineer identified road segments that exceeded the county's adopted .9 volume to capacity standard. The GMA requires a concurrency ordinance that denies development dropping a road below the standard. Clark