19C.10.030 Types of Plan Amendments – Definitions.
A. "Area-Wide Map amendment" means a proposed change or revision to the Comprehensive Plan Generalized Land Use Map that affects an area which is either comprehensive in nature, deals with homogeneous communities, is geographically distinctive, or has unified interest within the County, such as community plan areas. An Area-Wide Map amendment, unlike a parcel or site-specific land use reclassification proposal, is of area-wide significance or contiguous expansion of an existing land use designation and includes many separate properties under various ownerships.
1. Single parcel or single ownership Area-Wide Map Amendments may be appropriate for:
a. correcting technical errors;
b. circumstances such as the recognition of public parks, schools, and other public institutions;
c. applications involving Master Planned Communities, Master Planned Resorts, Employment Based Planned Communities, or New Fully Contained Communities; or
d. redesignation of single parcels or single ownership when contiguous with an existing land use designation.
B. "Budgetary Capital Facilities amendment" means a proposed change or revision to the Capital Facilities Element of the Comprehensive Plan that occurs concurrently with the adoption or amendment of the County's budget and is related to the budget adoption/amendment.
C. "Community Plan amendment" means a proposed change or revision to the text, goals, policies or Community Plan Land Use Map and does not include the initial adoption of a new or County-initiated update to an existing community plan.
D. "Comprehensive Plan amendment" means an Area-Wide Map amendment, Budgetary Capital Facilities amendment, Emergency amendment, Text amendment, Community Plan amendment, or Urban Growth Area amendment to the Comprehensive Plan.
E. "Emergency amendment" means a proposed change or revision to the Comprehensive Plan that arises from a situation that necessitates the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety or support of the County government and its existing institutions. Emergency amendments are governed by the procedures set forth in the Pierce County Charter for emergency ordinances.
F. "Text amendment" means a change or revision in the text of the goals, policies, objectives, principles or standards of any element of the Comprehensive Plan, excluding Budgetary Capital Facilities amendments and Community Plan amendments. Text amendments may include Capital Facilities amendments that are unrelated to the adoption or amendment of the County's budget.
G. "Urban Growth Area amendment" means a change or revision to the designated Comprehensive Urban Growth Area (CUGA), or designated urban growth area or urban service area of any city or town within Pierce County.