Griffin Neighborhood Association Public Issues

Public Issues

Click here to learn why we oppose a Conference Center on Steamboat Island Road

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Griffin Neighborhood Association

Current development applications we're monitoring has been moved. Follow the "Developments" link, to the left, for Current Applications.

Request for Public Documents Now Required

Do you want to see a file at the County offices? Development Services, Environmental Health and Roads Development Review now require a formal written request for documents, if you wish to see what's in their files.

Click here to download a blank Request for Public Documents form.

Planned Rural Residential Development (PRRD)

Much of rural Thurston County is zoned rural residential resource 1 dwelling per 5 acres or 1 dwelling per 2 acres. However, there is a regulation, called "PRRD," which allows development of higher densities.

Click here to read our information page on PRRD (also called "clustered housing" or "clustered development").

Thurston County Comprehensive Plan

Click here to view Proposed Amendments to the Thurston County Code dated July 28, 2004. County Staff are recommending language clarifying the special use permit in rural areas.

Online Land Development and Mapping Tools

Thurston County Code
Click here to link to the code online.

DEVELOPMENT LOCATOR

The Olympian publishes a "development locator" in their Business section, usually (but not always) on the first Sunday of each month. Click here for a recent online version. The Development Locator is in two pieces. First, there are descriptions for all presubmissions and applications in process, and building permits issued. There is an image, which represents a map corresponding to a locator code for each project description.

GEODATA CENTER

Click here for the Thurston County GeoData Center

USGS AERIAL PHOTOS

Click here to access USGS (1990) aerial photos of the Griffin area on the TerraServer web site.

TerraFly

Click here to access the TerraFly system, which permits you to control a "virtual flyover" of most regions of the planet, including our own.

Thurston County Comprehensive Plan

Presently, only the Table of Contents and Chapter 9 - Natural Environment are available online. Click here to see those.

Thurston County Developmental Services

Click here to visit the web pages for the Permit Assistance Center and other related county services.