Duvall City Administrator, Comprehensive Planning Task Force, Development Review Committee (DRC), and Planning Commission, Duvall, Washington
We
consolidated critical area, shoreline, environmental, zoning, subdivision, site
planning, landscape, parking, signage, annexation, urban design, growth impact
fee, and appeal regulations for the Duvall Planning Department and Commission.
The project was one of 6 statewide projects funded in part by the GMA/SEPA
demonstration program of the Washington State Department of Community, Trade,
& Economic Development (CTED).
We
developed a series of quick-sketch building envelop studies to identify for the
code task force members (and subsequent EIS) the environmental, building
feasibility, and urban design impact of alternative zoning and development
regulation provisions. The evaluations also identified the system and site
impacts that could occur within the prototype sites and districts as a means of
"pre-qualifying" future project impacts and reducing subsequent
environmental review requirements.
Our scope of work included detailed environmental, economic, land use, circulation, recreation, utilities, aesthetics, recreation, and fiscal elements for a comprehensive plan for a rapidly growing portion of a rural activity center in King County in accordance with the provisions established in GMA.
Our plan identified critical environmental areas and the holding capacity of available developable lands. We allocated these available and suitable lands to employment related or higher density urban housing in order to realize a compact urban form with jobs and public revenues sufficient to provide present and future city residents with adequate public services.