What Is the Next Step If the Board of County Commissioners Wants to Consider a TDR Program in Connection with its Response to the Growth Board Order?
I would recommend that the commissioners proceed in a deliberate step-wise fashion. The first step, to occur at the time of adoption of the response to the Growth Board Order, would be to direct that TDR implementation be placed on the work plan, and prioritize this for the Planning Department. I strongly recommend against attempting to draft a program in the time that remains to comply with the Growth Board Order. The City of Seattle had five people working about eighteen months to develop the materials to implement their program. A successful program requires a great deal of public participation in drafting the program and educating the public, developers and others about how the program will work. Every community that has adopted such an ordinance in Washington has made it part of an ordinance enacted after the response to the Growth Board orders, which is consistent with our recommendation.
