NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

| July 2, 2012 1:00 PM

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of County Commissioner will conduct a

public hearing in accordance with Chapter 25.12 of the Grant County Unified Development Code to consider proposed amendments to the Grant County Comprehensive Plan submitted in accordance with the criteria listed in the Unified Development Code adopted in October, 2000 and as subsequently amended, and in accordance with State Law RCW 36.70A.

DESCRIPTION OF CURRENT PROPOSAL:

A non-project proposal to consider the adoption of amendments to the Grant County 2006 GMA Comprehensive Plan and re-zones. Proposed amendments considered for adoption include urban growth boundary changes, site-specific land use designation changes, changes to Figure 5-5, Future Land use Map; and rezones. The proposed amendments specifically include proposals submitted by the following applicants and will be heard commencing at 10:30 a.m. on July 17, 2012 in the Grant County Commissioners Hearing Room on the second floor of the Grant County Courthouse in Ephrata, Washington, at which time any person may appear and be heard either for or against the approval of the proposed amendments to be considered at the public hearing. PLEASE NOTE: Specific hearing times for the individual applications will not be established as the hearing time for each application may vary; the applications will tentatively be heard sequentially as listed below:

1. File #11-5562 Port of Royal Slope -Urban Growth Boundary Change; Site-Specific Land

Use Re-designation and Zone Change. The subject area is approximately 416 acres in size with a current Comprehensive Plan Land Use Designation of "Rural Remote". The applicant has submitted an application requesting the subject property be included within the boundary of the Royal City Urban Growth Area (UGA), site specific land use re-designation to "Urban Industrial" along with a Zone Change from Rural Remote to Urban Heavy Industrial. The subject area is generally located approximately 11/2 to 3 miles south of Hwy 26 between Road E SW and F SW and adjacent to existing Port of Royal Slope property. The parcels are located in Sections 18 & 19, Township 16 N., Range 26 E.W.M., (parcels # 16-0134-001, 16-0131-000 & 16-0131-001).

2. File #12-5668 Port District #3 (Port of Mattawa) - Mattawa area - Site-Specific Land Use Re-designation and Rezone. The subject site is comprised of 2 parcels totaling approx 21.12 acres. The current Comprehensive Plan Land Use Designation of the parcels is Residential - Medium Density. The applicant has submitted a Site Specific Land Use Re-designation application requesting the subject property be re-designated to Commercial (Urban) along with an application for a rezone from Urban Residential -3 to Urban Commercial - The parcel is located within the City of Mattawa's Urban Growth Area. The subject area is the located just west of the City of Mattawa, parcel #s 02-1854-000 and 02-1855-000. The parcel is bordered on the north by Rd. 24 SW and on the east by Patchee Dr. SW. Parcels are located in a portion of S. 03, T. 14 N., R. 23E., W.M., Grant County, WA.

3. File #12-5669 Mark Gregson, John F. Vitone and Else Moe Vitone, Trustees - Coulee City area - Site Specific Land Use Re-designation and Minor re-zone. The subject site is comprised of approximately 80 ± with a current Comprehensive Plan Land Use Designation of Agricultural (Rangeland). The applicant has submitted a Site Specific Land Use Re-designation application requesting the subject property be re-designated to Rural Residential - 1 along with an application for a rezone from Agriculture to Rural Residential - The parcel is not located within an Urban Growth Area. The proposal site is a portion of parcel #17-1406-000. The parcel is located east of Coulee City and is just south of Rd. 36 NE and is located in a portion of S. 02, T. 24 N, R 28 E. W.M., Grant County, WA.

Copies of the proposed amendment applications and Comprehensive Plan/FEIS and the 2012 Addendum to the EIS are available for review at the Grant County Planning Department, 457 1st Ave N.W., Ephrata, Additional background data, including the petitions for urban growth boundary change, site specific land use re-designation and other amendments to the Comprehensive Plan, SEPA checklists prepared for proposed amendments, and other pertinent data is also available for public review. Contact Dorothy Black, Project Planner at 754-2011,

Ext. 625.

Barbara J. Vasquez

Administrative Assistant &

Clerk of the Board

Grant County Commissioners

#07018/2463456

Pub.: July 2 & 9, 2012