Transfer of Development Rights / Purchase of Development Rights Work Group

Purpose

The Whatcom County Council adopted the Comprehensive Plan update in August 2016 (Ordinance 2016-034). Comprehensive Plan Policy 2A-14 included convening a multi-stakeholder workgroup tasked with reviewing a number of issues relating to transfer of development rights (TDRs) and purchase of development rights (PDRs). Therefore, the Whatcom County Executive appointed the TDR/PDR Work Group to address these issues in February 2017. The Work Group met 15 times in 2017-18 and issued its Final Report on October 3, 2018.

Agenda	Meeting Summary
March 1, 2017	March 1, 2017
April 5, 2017	April 5, 2017
May 3, 2017	May 3, 2017
June 7, 2017	June 7, 2017
July 5, 2017	July 5, 2017
August 2, 2017	August 2, 2017
September 6, 2017	September 6, 2017
October 4, 2017	October 4, 2017
November 1, 2017	November 1, 2017
December 6, 2017	December 6, 2017
January 3, 2018	January 3, 2018
February 7, 2018	February 7, 2018
March 7, 2018	March 7, 2018
April 4, 2018 (Meeting Cancelled)	N/A
May 2, 2018 (Meeting Cancelled)	N/A
June 6, 2018	June 6, 2018
October 3, 2018	October 3, 2018

Members

Chris Behee - City of Bellingham

Michael Jones - City of Blaine

Rollin Harper - Cities of Everson, Nooksack, and Sumas

Jori Burnett - City of Ferndale

Dave Timmer - City of Lynden

Bill Henshaw - Building Industry

Betty Sanchez - Realtors

Myrle Foster - Rural Property Owner

Ralph Black - TDR User

Phil Thompson - Economist

Steve Powers - Affordable Housing

Rod Erickson - Agriculture

Karlee Deatherage - Environmental

Rud Browne - County Council