The Clark County council will consider all things Clark County Comprehensive Growth Management Plan update at its hearing this morning.
The council appears poised to adopt Councilor David Madore’s controversial planning assumptions for the county’s 20-year growth plan, as well as Alternative 4, which would allow for smaller rural, forest and agriculture lots in rural Clark County.
A resolution posted on The Grid, the county council’s hub for meeting notes and material, calls for the county to amend its planning assumptions to reflect Madore’s proposals. Those assumptions set the framework for the entire plan, determining what and where lots could develop. Councilor Tom Mielke signaled his support for the planning assumptions and Madore’s controversial Alternative 4 at a Nov. 9 work session.
Madore’s hands-on approach to the county’s growth plan update has stirred controversy all year. Though supporters of the plan say Alternative 4 will free up land that has been out of compliance since the 1994 Comprehensive Growth Management Plan, critics say it will lead to sprawl in rural Clark County, and therefore violate the state Growth Management Act.
