What’s on our Radar – Week of March 30th, 2026
This week’s opportunities for engagement include a work session on parks plan updates and more. Be sure to review last week’s highlights from the work session on the Comp Plan Site Specific Requests (SSRs) within city Urban Growth Area (UGA) Proposals & Ag Land De-designation Criteria.
THIS WEEK’S RADAR
Our weekly radar is intended to highlight Clark County meetings and events relevant to Friends of Clark County priorities. This list is not exhaustive. For a full list of Clark County meetings, please visit Clark County Council and Clark County Community Planning on the Clark County website.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1st
- Work session on Fireworks at 9am: Meeting information
- Work session on Parks and Nature System Plan & Natural Areas Acquisition Plan after the Fireworks work session: Meeting
Photo from Clark County website
- Remember, work sessions are informational, so no public commentary is permitted.
Council Time at 1pm: Meeting information
- Submit a public comment (agenda items only)
- Ending Community Homelessness Organization (ECHO) Systems Analysis Project
- Councilor Reports
- Boards & Commission Reports
- Policy Updates
Clean Water Commission meeting at 6pm: Meeting information
THURSDAY, APRIL 2nd
Development and Engineering Advisory Board (DEAB) meeting at 2pm: Meeting information
LAST WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS
Clark County Work Sessions
There was a work session about Comp Plan Site Specific Requests (SSRs) within city Urban Growth Area (UGA) Proposals & Ag Land De-designation Criteria. Items of note:
- Community Planning Director, Oliver Orjiako, warned the Clark County Council that, “The county has lost [in the courts] on the question of need and lack of taking reasonable measures before granting urban growth boundary expansion with the Growth Board.” As a reminder, FOCC’s position on the Comp Plan update is that Clark County’s own modeling establishes that all its cities can accommodate their projected population growth within existing urban growth areas (UGAs), meaning there is no legal reason to expand their UGAs.
- There was lengthy discussion about the state legal criteria for designating agricultural land, in which the Council was reminded that the Agricultural Lands Study found that the agricultural land the cities want to de-designate for urban growth area (UGA) expansion met the state legal criteria for agricultural land designation.
- There was much discussion about the history of land use decisions in Clark County. Watch this clip of Chair Marshall speaking about the opportunity to rectify mistakes of the past and protect agriculture in the county based on the important findings from the Clark County Agricultural Lands Study.
- Councilor Yung stated that he disagreed with the Agricultural Lands Study and claimed that certain discretionary criteria (regarding land use patterns and nearby land use intensity) were ignored in the process.
- Watch the YouTube recording of the March 25th Comp Plan work session
- Time stamps for city expansion discussions:
- Ridgefield: 1 hour 30 min
- La Center: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Battle Ground: 1 hour 48 minutes
- Camas: 2 hours 5 min
- Read notes from the League of Women Voters’ Observer Corps
Council Time
Items of note:
- The Council did not have majority support to appoint Councilor Michelle Belkot to the C-Tran Board. Councilor Belkot confirmed that she would not vote as a representative of the Council if directed to.
- Community Planning discussed their 2026 work plan.
Read notes from the League of Women Voters’ Observer Corps
Watch the full Council Time meeting
Commission and Advisory Board meetings
- There was a Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) meeting in which Vancouver Safe Routes to School and an
Active Transportation Network were discussed. Listen to audio from the March 24th BPAC meeting.
- The Agricultural Advisory Commission held a meeting in which they debriefed their takeaways from the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Clark County Council work session and more. Watch the March 25th Ag Advisory Commission meeting.
- There was a Charter Review Commission meeting. Watch the March 25th Charter Review Commission meeting
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
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