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Planning Division
Purpose
The Planning Division assists the public with zoning, critical area reviews and other inquiries. Planning Division staff processes applications for:
- Aquifer Recharge Reviews
- Boundary Line Adjustments
- Certificates of Zoning Compliance
- Conditional Uses
- Rural Housing Certificates
- Rural Residential Site Reviews
- SEPA Environmental Checklists
- Shoreline Permits
- Short Plats
- Variances
- Zone Changes
Departmental Responsibilities
- Board of Adjustment
- Boundary Line Adjustments
- County Comprehensive Plan
- County Shorelines
- County Wetlands
- County Zoning
- Flood Plain Permits
- Forest Practice Notices
- Land Use Permits
- Planning Commission
- SEPA
- Short, Long Plats, Subdivisions
Next Meeting or Hearing
The June 7, 2023, Planning Commission meeting is canceled.
June 8, 2023, Board of Adjustment (BOA) Hearing
July 5, 2023, Planning Commission (PC) Meeting
Planning Documents
- Boundary Line Adjustment (BLA) - Application (PDF)
- Conditional Use Permit (CUP) - Application (PDF)
- Floodplain Development Permit - Application (PDF)
- Land Surveyors List (PDF)
- Pondering the Palouse? (PDF)
- Rural Housing Certificate (RHC) - Application (PDF)
- Rural Housing Certificate (RHC) - Buffer Waiver (PDF)
- Rural Residential Site Review (RRSR) - Application (PDF)
- State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) Environmental Checklist (WAC 197-11-960) (PDF)
- Voluntary Stewardship Program (VSP) - Work Plan (PDF)
- Wetlands Consultants List (PDF)
- Whitman County Shorelines Master Plan (PDF)
- Zone Change (ZC) - Application (PDF)
- Zoning Variance (ZV) - Application (PDF)