The Washington State Growth Management Act shapes Skagit County’s present and future. Enacted in 1990, the GMA guides cities and counties to plan for population growth while guarding rural areas from unplanned and out-of-control development. 2025 is Skagit’s year, which means the groundwork and planning have begun.

Nov 10, 2024 · Every 10 years cities and counties must update their Comprehensive Plans to prepare for the next 20 years of growth. For Skagit County and its cities and towns, those updates are due at the end of 2025, and so our local governments are dutifully working through the process of achieving those updates on time. How Does This Work?

Sitting on their comfortable couch beneath a Chinese painting of galloping horses, Roger muses about the future of Skagit County. “It breaks my heart when I think of FCCs (Fully Contained Communities),” he says. “Suburban sprawl would proliferate and …

Ask almost any Skagit resident what they love about their home county, and closeness to water usually rates right up at the top. Skagit is loaded with stunning shoreline areas, beautiful and productive wetlands, and scenic lakes.

Currently she volunteers for Family Promise of Skagit County, which temporarily houses homeless families in local churches and other group living situations until they get back on their feet. She also phone banks for the Skagit Rural Voices Project, sponsored by Indivisible Skagit .

The brutal beating of a Skagit youth in Sedro Woolley on March 21, 2020 was reported by the Skagit Valley Herald and Skagit Breaking. What follows below are three perspectives of Skagit residents regarding Skagit County Prosecutor Rich Weyrich’s failure to …

Why has Skagit County contracted out health services at its new jail to a for-profit company with a terrible track record? Public Safety In January 2018 Skagit County Commissioners signed an agreement with an outfit called Naphcare.

The brutal beating of a Skagit youth in Sedro Woolley on March 21, 2020 was reported by the Skagit Valley Herald and Skagit Breaking. What follows below are three perspectives of Skagit residents regarding Skagit County Prosecutor Rich Weyrich’s failure to …

The appointed Skagit County Planning Commission (PC) wields considerable power in land use planning decisions that affect everyone in the county. Who are the Planning Commissioners? How are they appointed?

Skagit County Declines to Pursue Grant to Address Sea Level Rise Climate , Planning , Water For the last decade and a half, I and other Skagit residents have urged Skagit County to address sea level rise planning in its Shoreline Master Plan (SMP) update.