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Comprehensive Plan

The Lewis County Comprehensive Plan, a product of the state-wide requirements for growth management planning (Chapter 36.70A RCW), identifies a vision of the future for the community, the foundation for long-term goals, policies and land use patterns that put that vision into operation, and the foundation for allocating and providing for the management of growth in the community over a 20 year period. The vision of the future encompasses the issues for natural resource lands, critical areas, the mandatory plan elements (land use, rural, housing, transportation, utilities, capital facilities), urban growth areas, and the siting of essential public facilities, and enables the community leaders to direct economic development, plan for housing, business centers and open space/parks, and provide adequate public services and capital facilities as growth occurs.

Comprehensive Plan


Changes adopted in December 2008 and August 2009 are shown in footnotes on amended pages

countywide planning policies