Clark County's 20-year Comprehensive Growth Management plan serves as a complete policy document that guides county decisions and services on a wide range of topics that include: land use, transportation, parks, housing, capital facilities, and more.

With the 2016 update, staff has been reviewing the comprehensive plan document in an effort to be more concise and user friendly. New goals, policies and strategies are proposed to be added to certain elements of the Comprehensive Plan document.

Board of County Councilors and Planning Commission Joint Hearings (In addition to the materials on the Plan Adoption page) 

May 19, 2016 and May 24, 2016

• Introduction
• Community Framework Plan 
• Land Use Element
• Housing Element
• Rural and Natural Resources Element
• Environmental Element
• Transportation Element
• Capital Facilities Plan Element
• Parks, Recreation and Open Space Element
• Historical, Archaeological and Cultural Preservation Element
• Economic Development Element
• School Element
• Community Design Element
• Annexation Element
• Shoreline Element
• Procedural Guidelines
• Glossary
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Appendix A: Transportation Issues
• Appendix B: Figures
• Appendix C: Other Related Statutes and Rules
  • GMA Amendment Changes
• Appendix D: Economic Development Action Plan
• Appendix E: Capital Facility Plans Review and Analysis
• Appendix F: Public Involvement
  • Public Participation Plan
• Appendix G: County Financial Facilities Plan
• Appendix H: Legislative History
• Figures:
  • Figure 1: Constrained Land
  • Figure 2: Fish and Wildlife Conservation
  • Figure 3: Wetland Inventory
  • Figure 4: Hydric Soils
  • Figure 5: Major Floodplains
  • Figure 6: Wellhead Protection Areas
  • Figure 7: Slopes
  • Figure 8: Landslide Hazard
  • Figure 9: Liquefaction Susceptibility
  • Figure 10: NEHRP Site Classes
  • Figure 11: Erosion Hazard
  • Figure 12: Battle Ground Urban Growth Area
  • Figure 13: Camas Urban Growth Area
  • Figure 14: La Center Urban Growth Area
  • Figure 15: Ridgefield Urban Growth Area
  • Figure 16: Vancouver Urban Growth Area
  • Figure 17: Washougal Urban Growth Area
  • Figure 18: Yacolt Urban Growth Area
  • Figure 19: Woodland Urban Growth Area
  • Figure 20: Transportation Needs Identification
  • Figure 21: Forest Site Index Classifications
  • Figure 22A: Land Capability Classification System
  • Figure 22B: Prime Farmlands
  • Figure 23: Mineral Resources
  • Figure 24A: Rural and Natural Resources
  • Figure 24B: Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
  • Figure 25: Comprehensive Parks and Open Space Plan
  • Figure 26: Water System Purveyors
  • Figure 27: Sewer Service Areas
  • Figure 28: Stormwater Service Area
  • Figure 29: School Districts
  • Figure 30: Parks and Recreation Facility Service Areas
  • Figure 31: Law Enforcement Service Areas
  • Figure 32: Fire Districts
  • Figure 33: Transportation Service Areas

Planning Commission Review

2016

In March, the Planning Commission began reviewing complete comprehensive plan draft chapters with proposed updates/changes. Below are links to the chapters that Planning Commission has or is reviewing. This information can also be found on the Planning Commission's meetings webpage.

• April 21, 2016​
  • Land Use Element - Clean Version - Revised
  • Land Use Element - Working Version - Revised
  • Rural Element - Clean Version - Revised
  • Rural Element - Working Version - Revised
  • Transportation Element - Clean Version
  • Transportation Element - Working Version
  • CFP - Clean Version
  • CFP - Working Version
  • Appendix A - Transportation Issues - Clean Version
  • Appendix A - Transportation Issues - Working Version
  • Appendix E CFP Countywide - Clean Version
  • Appendix E CFP Countywide - Working Version
  • Comp Plan Document Revisions-04-14-2016
  • Comp Plan Document Revisions - 04-18-2016
  • Impact Fee Procedures
  • CPZ2016-00003 Woodland CFP Final Version
  • Rev Transportation Element Goals and Policy Table
  • Capital Facilities Plan
• April 7, 2016 PC Work Session
  • Housing Element - Tracking Version
  • Housing Element - Clean Version
  • Community Design - Tracking Version
  • Community Design - Clean Version
  • Appendix D - Tracking Version
  • Appendix D - Clean Version
  • Rural & Natural Resource Element - Tracking Version
  • Rural & Natural Resource Element - Clean Version
  • Land Use Element - Tracking Version
  • Land Use Element - Clean Version
  • Environmental Element - Tracking Version
  • ​Environmental Element - Clean Version
  • Comprehensive Plan revisions
• March 17, 2016 PC Work Session
  • Environmental Element - Clean Version
  • Environmental Element - Working Version
  • Historical, Archaeological and Cultural Preservation Element - Clean Version
  • Historical, Archaeological and Cultural Preservation Element - Working Version
  • Economic Development Element - Clean Version
  • Economic Development Element - Working Version
  • Parks, Recreation & Open Space - Clean Version
  • Parks, Recreations & Open Space - Working Version
• March 3, 2016 PC Work Session
  • Introduction - Clean Version
  • Introduction - Working Version
  • Community Framework Plan - No Changes Proposed
  • School Element - Clean Version
  • School Element - Working Version
  • Annexation Element - Clean Version
  • Annexation Element - Working Version
  • Shoreline - No Changes Proposed
  • Procedural Guidelines - Clean Version
  • Procedural Guidelines - Working Version
  • Legislative History - New Appendix
  • Glossary - No Changes Proposed
  • Abbreviations and Acronyms - No Changes Proposed
  • Figures - Clean Version
  • Figures - Working Version

2014

At the Planning Commission's February 20, March 6, March 20 and April 3, 2014 work sessions, proposed changes to several of the chapters were reviewed. Below are links to the chapters that staff have reviewed with the Planning Commission and the proposed changes.

• Annexation (PDF)
• Capital Facilities (PDF)
• Community Development (Land Use, Community Design and Historic chapters combined) (PDF)
• County-wide planning policies (PDF)
• Economic development (PDF)
• Environmental (PDF)
• Housing (PDF)
• Rural (PDF)
• Transportation
  • Transportation (goals and policies) (PDF)
  • Transportation (chapter text) (PDF)

Other chapters yet to be reviewed include: Schools, Shoreline and Parks. The Comprehensive Parks plan was recently adopted by the BOCC. That plan when approved will be incorporated into the 2016 Comprehensive Growth Management Plan.

The current adopted plan can be downloaded with the link below:

2007 Comprehensive Growth Management Plan document (PDF)