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June 19, 2025

WATCH our June 2025 Forum on Planning for Our Collective Future in Clark County: The Final Stretch of The Comprehensive Plan Update

in Climate Change, Comprehensive Plan & Growth Management Act, Farmland & Forests, General, Housing & Transportation, Local Food Systems, Parks, Trails, & Open Spaces

For those who could make the live session, we deeply appreciate your attendance at our forum about Clark County and the City of Vancouver’s Comprehensive Plan updates. It is a hopeful sign that we had such a great showing of local residents who took the time out of their evening for this discussion. Now, let’s […]

June 9, 2025

Let Your Voice Be Heard: Clark County’s Comp Plan Workshop Comment Period

in Climate Change, Comprehensive Plan & Growth Management Act, Farmland & Forests, Local Food Systems

Help us advocate for our vision for the future of sustainable agriculture in Clark County and meaningful climate action! What’s at stake? The loss of 519 acres of prime agricultural lands in Clark County’s Comprehensive Plan Update and the delayed implementation and potential loss of funding for urgent climate, transportation, housing, and parks policies. What’s […]

May 12, 2025

Victory in Sight on the Chelatchie Bluff Surface Mining Overlay (SMO)!

in Climate Change, Farmland & Forests, Mining, Rivers, Lakes & Aquifers

The Clark County Council recently gave unanimous direction to move forward with repealing the Chelatchie Bluff surface mining overlay (SMO) over environmentally sensitive forest land in response to the Washington Court of Appeals ruling in FOCC’s favor on the matter, which would bring the county back into compliance with state law. To learn more about […]

May 5, 2025

🚨 CALL-TO-ACTION to Save Hundred of Acres of Agricultural Land in the Clark County Comprehensive Plan Update May 7th at 1pm!

in Accountability, Climate Change, Comprehensive Plan & Growth Management Act, Farmland & Forests, Housing & Transportation, Local Food Systems

What’s at stake? The loss of 519 acres of agricultural land in Clark County’s Comprehensive Plan Update to sprawling development, the delay (6 months to a year or more) of passing urgent climate, transportation, and housing policies, noncompliance with state law, and ineligibility for grants and low-interest loans from the state that could be lost […]

May 4, 2025

SAVE THE DATE for our June Forum on Planning for our Collective Future in Clark County: the Final Stretch of the Comprehensive Plan Update

in Climate Change, Comprehensive Plan & Growth Management Act, Farmland & Forests, Housing & Transportation, Local Food Systems, Parks, Trails, & Open Spaces

Do you care about local farms, healthy forests, clean water, clean air, the climate crisis, parks, walkability, housing and transportation, fish, wildlife, and creating vibrant and equitable communities? So does Friends of Clark County! That’s why advocacy around the Clark County Comprehensive Plan update process in accordance with the Washington State Growth Management Act (GMA) is […]

April 28, 2025

Dabbler Legacy Forest Logging Moving Forward!

in Accountability, Climate Change, Farmland & Forests

Dabbler photo courtesy of Joshua Wright The Latest We are very sad to report that on March 28th, 2025, Judge Derek Vanderwood of the Superior Court of Washington denied Legacy Forest Defense Coalition and FOCC’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction (PI) of the Dabbler forest Units 1, 2 and 3 in eastern Clark County. However, we […]

April 28, 2025

Ann Foster: Clark County Climate Project Community Advisory Group Achieves its Mission!

in Climate Change

With pride and satisfaction, on April 7th, 2025, the Clark County Climate Project Community Advisory Group (CAG) finished its year-and-a-half long mission to develop actionable policies to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions and improve climate resilience in Clark County. Working collaboratively, we managed to produce 160 goals and policies covering just about all aspects […]

April 21, 2025

Clark County Comprehensive Plan Update: The Latest Developments

in Accountability, Climate Change, Comprehensive Plan & Growth Management Act, Farmland & Forests, General, Housing & Transportation, Local Food Systems, Parks, Trails, & Open Spaces

Background In our last update, the Clark County Council had adopted the Draft Environmental Impact Study (DEIS) alternatives for the Comprehensive Plan Update. Alternatives are options for the Comp Plan that the cities and county put forward to be studied for environmental impacts in accordance with the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), which requires that […]

April 11, 2025

🚨 CALL-TO-ACTION to Save 6,000 acres of Ag & Forest Land in the Clark County Comprehensive Plan Update

in Climate Change, Comprehensive Plan & Growth Management Act, Farmland & Forests

What’s at stake? The loss of 3,000 acres of agricultural land and 3,000 acres of forest in Clark County’s Comprehensive Plan Update to sprawling development and mining. What’s happening? The Clark County Council recently gave direction to amend the scope of work for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the 2025 Comp Plan Update […]

March 21, 2025

View FOCC’s Letter of Support for the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC)

in Climate Change, Comprehensive Plan & Growth Management Act, Housing & Transportation

Hello Clark County Council, Public Works Staff, and Planner Husting, Friends of Clark County wholeheartedly supports the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC’s) requests that Clark County implement the 2010 BPAC Master Plan and the 2025 Work Plan Goals and Action Strategies, with a few additional comments: Clark County faces a convergence of urgent crises: […]