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Appendix A: Growth Management Act of State of Washington
Appendix A: Growth Management Act of State of Washington
Pages 104-108
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growth in Pierce County, which together with King County, would bear the brunt of most hazardous events at Mount Rainier. On April I, 1990, the State of Washington passed the GMA, requiring those counties and municipalities meeting certain population trends to develop comprehensive growth management plans.
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The CAG's responsibility is to recommend policies to the County Council that will be used as guidelines for writing the regulations and ordinances to implement the growth management plan. The CAG's policy recommendations are based on issues identified by the GMA, by the county government, by Pierce County citizens in a countywide survey, and in public workshops conducted by the CAG and by members of Advisory Committees on Elements (ACEs)
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The publications by Crandell and Mullineaux clearly show Hat the most significant volcanic hazard confronting the residents of Pierce County are debris flows in the Puyallup, Carbon, White, and Nisqually River valleys. Although the Crandell-Mullineaux papers lack adequate information on recurrence intervals and probabilities for various-sized debris flows, the ACE agreed that the maximum event for planning consideration was a debris flow similar in size to the Electrondebris flow, as described in Crandell (1971~.
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This issue remains unresolved by the CAG and the Pierce County Council as of April 1993. Another problem concerns existing development and fixture needs in Me upper Nisqually Valley in the Ashford-Elbe areas, where the probability for inundation by a debris flow is substantially greater than 9.5
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A warning system such as flow detectors or seismometers telemetered to sirens in Ashford and Elbe and an emergency evacuation plan are clearly needed. Because the GMA requires consistency among 19 comprehensive plans for Pierce County (unincorporated Pierce County and IS municipalities within it)
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