Affordable housing and carbon-free transportation
In a Clark County public hearing on January 15th, Eric Golemo of the Clark County Development & Engineering Advisory Board (DEAB) testified, saying “…we’ll attract what we plan for. While Clark County used to attract the best and the brightest from the metro area, we’ll now be at risk of becoming a hub for low-income […]
Help us advocate for a sustainable future balancing growth, the preservation of prime agricultural land, and meaningful climate action in Clark County. What’s at stake? The loss of over 500 acres of prime agricultural lands and meaningful climate action in Clark County’s Comprehensive Plan Update. What’s happening? Clark County is revising its Comprehensive Growth Management […]
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 […]
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 […]
Friends of Clark County has been tracking progress on bills in the state legislature related to our mission. April 27th was the session end, and even with significant budget challenges they managed to finish on schedule. Most of the bills we started watching never went anywhere, and that is generally a good thing. We were […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
In addition to helping us and other organizations locally, our partner Futurewise advocates for sane land use legislation at the state level. You can find their advocacy page here. Futurewise’s priorities this year include Rent Stabilization, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), and fighting sprawl. Sign up for updates to get their Grow Together campaign alerts so that you can act […]
Photo from Clark County government Link to Clark County’s 2025 Comprehensive Planning page here: 2025 Update | Clark County (wa.gov) In our last update, the County had adopted the Population and Employment allocation, which determines what future population and job numbers each of the cities and the county need to plan for. The county had […]