CPZ2019-00028 | Clark County

Clark County Code 40.250.030 Historic Preservation Amendments

Project Summary

Clark County Community Planning is requesting to amend the Clark County Unified Development Code (Title 40.250.030 Historic Preservation) to require a minimum of seven commissioners (currently the minimum is five), with two being appointed by the city and five by the county and to state that the appeals process for properties in any of the cities/town would follow the process as outlined in the intergovernmental agreement and/or city code.

Background

Clark County has intergovernmental agreements with the seven cities/town regarding the Historic Preservation program. The existing intergovernmental agreements were last updated in 1997 and reference the 1996-03-16 county adopting ordinance. Since the Historic Preservation Code (CCC 40.250.030) was recently updated in 2018, the intergovernmental agreements need to be updated to reflect the new adopting ordinance and other changes that were made in the Title 40 update.

During discussions about updating the Intergovernmental Agreement, the city of Vancouver requested consideration be given to change the current commission appointment process to allow the city to appoint two of the seven positions on the Historic Preservation Commission, as they do with all other Joint City-County advisory boards and commissions. Clark County and the City of Vancouver are both Certified Local Governments designated by the state and have from the beginning decided to have a joint city/county historic preservation program.

This appointment process change would require updating the county’s historic preservation code (40.250.030) to require a minimum of seven commissioners (currently the minimum is five), with two being appointed by the city and five by the county.

Another code change necessitated by updating the intergovernmental agreement is to update the appeals process in 40.250.030 to state that the appeals process for properties in any of the cities/town would follow the process as outlined in the intergovernmental agreement and/or city code.