City of Ferndale

This document, the Land Use Element of the City of Ferndale's Comprehensive Plan, provides policy outputs and analytical insights to guide future growth and land use from 2025 to 2045. It outlines five primary goals: promoting commercial growth and revitalization, encouraging the development of new industries for living wage jobs, ensuring a wide range of housing types and densities, preserving environmentally sensitive areas, and facilitating the orderly expansion and development of the city. The plan emphasizes accommodating projected population and employment growth through increased residential densities, mixed-use development, and strategic commercial and industrial zoning, while also addressing environmental challenges and infrastructure needs.

This document outlines the City of Ferndale's long-term policy and financial strategy for capital facility improvements from 2025 to 2045, with a detailed financing plan for 2025-2030. It focuses on ensuring adequate public services and infrastructure to support envisioned growth, maintaining environmentally sound and reliable facilities, establishing quantifiable level of service standards, and coordinating with other local agencies. The plan covers municipal services such as administrative, police, fire, water, wastewater, and stormwater, as well as parks and essential public facilities. Its primary goals include enhancing quality of life, fostering economic development, and ensuring comprehensive emergency preparedness.

This document, the Housing Element of the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Ferndale, outlines a strategy to meet current and future housing needs for its residents, ensuring a sufficient supply of diverse and affordable housing options. Key priorities include accommodating all economic segments through flexible land use regulations, promoting infill and new development in strategic areas, and preserving strong neighborhoods. The plan also focuses on redressing racially disparate impacts, streamlining development, providing appropriate infrastructure, and considering the long-term costs of housing. It aims to foster a stable, healthy, and thriving community by supporting varied housing types and promoting a vibrant downtown core.

The Utilities Element outlines the City of Ferndale's strategic approach to managing and developing essential utility services, encompassing solid waste and recycling, electricity, natural gas, and telecommunications. The plan focuses on ensuring consistency with the City's Comprehensive Plan and supporting anticipated growth over a 20-year planning horizon. Key priorities include active coordination with utility providers through updated franchise agreements, informing residents of their rights and responsibilities, promoting resource and environmental conservation, and encouraging the compatible siting of utility infrastructure to minimize impacts.

This Capital Facilities Plan for the City of Ferndale provides a comprehensive overview and policy direction for capital improvements through 2045. It details the current inventory, forecasted needs, and a financing plan for municipal and non-municipal services, including water, wastewater, stormwater, police, fire, parks, schools, and administrative facilities. The plan focuses on establishing and maintaining quantifiable Level of Service standards, ensuring financial feasibility for capital projects, and coordinating with various service providers to deliver timely, adequate, environmentally sensitive, safe, and reliable facilities to support planned growth and enhance the community's quality of life, with additional objectives for public safety and emergency preparedness.