What is a Comprehensive Plan?
A Comprehensive Plan is a twenty-year community vision for growth and development. Ellensburg’s Comprehensive Plan was adopted October 2008, the plan identifies the density, type, and intensity of land uses throughout the City, as well as the character and capacity of public facilities and services like streets and utilities.

The Comprehensive Plan serves as the basis for the City's adoption of development regulations such as zoning and subdivision standards. The Appendix provides the most current capital improvement programs.

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1. What is a Comprehensive Plan?
2. What is the annual Comprehensive Plan amendment process?
3. What is annexation and how does it work?
4. What is an Urban Growth Area?
5. What is the Growth Management Act?