Transcript City of Sedro-Woolley Shoreline Management Program Update

City of Sedro-Woolley
Shoreline Management
Program Update
Community Visioning Meeting
August 16, 2011
WELCOME!
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SMA & SMP
SMP Update Process
Public Participation
Inventory and Characterization
Next Steps
SMA
• Washington State Shoreline Management
Act of 1972 (SMA)
• Protect shoreline environmental resources
AND the public's right to access and use
the shorelines
• Accommodate appropriate uses that
require a shoreline location
SMP
• Under the SMA, each city and county with
shorelines of the state must prepare and
adopt a Shoreline Master Program (SMP)
• SMP is essentially a combined
comprehensive plan, zoning ordinance,
and development permit system for
shoreline-specific uses
Shorelines of the State
• Rivers over 20 cfs, lakes over 20 acres & marine
shorelines
• Shorelands extending landward for two hundred
feet in all directions as measured on a horizontal
plane from the ordinary high water mark;
floodways and contiguous floodplain areas
landward two hundred feet from such floodways;
and all wetlands and river deltas associated with
the streams, lakes, and tidal waters
Sedro-Woolley’s Shorelines
• The Skagit
River is the
only body of
water in
SedroWoolley that
is regulated
under SMA
SMP Update
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State regulations updates in 2003
Require all jurisdictions to update
Skagit County also updating SMP
Received Department of Ecology Grant
3 year update timeframe in grant
Completion in Summer of 2013
Update Process
• Phase 1: Preliminary Shoreline
Jurisdiction and Public Participation Plan
• Phase 2: Shoreline Inventory, Analysis
and Characterization
• Phase 3: Environment Designation, Policy
& Regulation Development, Cumulative
Impacts Analysis
• Phase 4: Restoration Plan
• Phase 5: Local Approval
Phase 1
• Identify preliminary shoreline jurisdiction –
see report Public Participation Working
Draft June 2011
• Develop public participation plan – see
report Preliminary Assessment of Shoreline
Jurisdiction Draft June 2011
• Both of the above are completed
• Detailed reports reviewed by Ecology
Phase 2
• Complete shoreline inventory
• Conduct shoreline analysis
• Prepare inventory and characterization
report
• The above actions are completed in draft
form in the Shoreline Characterization
and Analysis Draft June 2011
Phase 3
• Conduct community visioning process
• General goals, policies, and regulations
• Develop policies, regulations & standards
for shoreline uses & modifications as well
as environmental designations &
administrative provisions
• Prepare cumulative impact analysis
Phase 4 - Restoration Plan
• Prepare restoration
plan
• Revisit draft
environment
designations,
policies, and
regulations and
finalize maps
• Demonstrate how
no net loss (NNL)
is achieved
Phase 5 - Local Approval
• Assemble complete draft SMP
• Complete SEPA review and
documentation
• Hold public hearing
• Council approve SMP
• Submit final SMP to Ecology
• Public participation will be ongoing
Public Participation –
ongoing through update
• Visioning summer of 2011
• Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC)
– Hold visioning meeting
– Hold additional meetings to gather public
input on update products as available
• Dedicated SMP update webpage
• Public Participation Plan
• Comment forms
Shoreline Jurisdiction
• The SMP will apply to only lands in the
shoreline jurisdiction
• The document titled Preliminary
Assessment of Shoreline Jurisdiction Draft
June 2011 shows the area that will be included
in the shoreline jurisdiction
Preliminary Jurisdiction
Preliminary Jurisdiction Reach
(not including wetlands)
Shoreline Analysis
• Draft analysis titled Shoreline
Characterization and Analysis Draft
June 2011
• Analysis to be revised as necessary
depending on information and input from
visioning meeting
Shoreline Analysis Elements
• Current baseline condition of jurisdiction
• Analyzes existing shoreline ecological
functions
• Analyzes current land uses and identifies
likely changes
• Identifies potential restoration opportunites
Next Steps
• Continue developing Shoreline
Characterization and Analysis –
under way
• Community visioning (TODAY!)
• Begin Draft SMP – Fall 2011 thru Winter
2013
• Deliver to Council for consideration – early
to mid 2013
Thank you!