Comprehensive Plan Amendments

The Comprehensive Plan may be amended once per calendar year.  Each year amendments can be proposed through a public “docketing” process. The Comprehensive Plan was last amended on December 6, 2022 when the City Council adopted Ordinance 2455.

Docketing

Any individual, organization, business, or other group may propose a text or Land Use Designation Map amendment to the Comprehensive Plan or an amendment to Title 14, Snohomish Municipal Code, the City's Land Use Development Code, by submitting a "docket" application. Affected property owners must agree to site-specific map amendment requests.  

The next docket application period will begin August 1, 2025 and will be open until September 30, 2025.

To download an application click here.

For answers to frequently asked questions click here.

The docket process can be used to propose three types of amendments:

  1. Map amendments to change the Future Land Use designation for specific parcels or areas.  Only property owners may propose a site-specific re-designation.
  2. Text amendment to change an existing Comprehensive Plan policy or to propose a new policy.
  3. Land Use Development Code amendments to change an existing development regulation or to propose a new one.

All docket applications will be compiled and placed on a “Preliminary Docket” list.  The City Council will consider all applications at a public hearing on November 1, 2022, to determine which applications warrant further analysis and consideration.  Those are then placed on the “Final Docket”. 

Placement on the Final Docket does not mean the proposal will be adopted.  Rather, it means the proposal will be analyzed by staff and brought to the Planning Commission for a recommendation to the City Council.

On November 2, 2021, the City Council approved the 2022 Final Docket.  Four new applications, all proposed by the City, were placed on the Final Docket and three more were carried over from previous years’ dockets (all of which have now been completed).  Click here to download the 2022 Final Docket.

The process to amend the Comprehensive Plan is codified in SMC 14.15.020.

For more information about the docket process, contact Planning Director Brooke Eidem via email or by calling 360-282-3167.