Susan Duncan

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.

This memorandum analyzes Ferndale's population growth and land expansion across three distinct planning periods (1996-2005, 2006-2026, and 2026-2046 projected) to evaluate the city's current zoning strategy, particularly the proposed upzoning of residential single areas. It highlights a historical shift from outward expansion to inward growth, noting that the projected 2026-2046 period anticipates significant population increase with minimal annexation, a policy choice rather than a state mandate. The document recommends a balanced growth strategy that includes reevaluating annexation as a primary capacity tool, prioritizing infrastructure-ready annexation areas, and using upzoning selectively to align with historical growth patterns and distribute impacts more fairly.

This document, the City of Ferndale Comprehensive Plan Climate Element, establishes a framework for addressing climate change impacts through coordinated planning, policy, and community engagement. It focuses on two key areas: reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, aligning with Washington's 2050 target, and enhancing community resilience to climate-exacerbated hazards such as flooding, extreme heat, drought, and wildfire smoke. The plan aims to strengthen infrastructure, protect public health and well-being, enhance ecosystem health, promote fiscal responsibility, and foster a resilient and thriving future for Ferndale.

The Climate Element for the City of Ferndale's 2025 Comprehensive Plan establishes a framework for addressing the growing impacts of climate change. It includes goals and policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and vehicle miles traveled, while strengthening the community's ability to prepare for and withstand climate-exacerbated hazards such as flooding, extreme heat, drought, and wildfire smoke. The plan also aims to enhance ecosystem health, protect public health and well-being, strengthen infrastructure, ensure fiscal responsibility, and promote a resilient and thriving future for Ferndale through coordinated planning, policy, and community engagement.

This document presents the City of Ferndale's draft Climate Element, focusing on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reduction and climate resiliency. It proposes goals and policies across key areas such as energy-efficient buildings, low-carbon transportation, land use planning, tree canopy expansion, public health protection, flood resilience, emergency preparedness, and local and regional collaboration, with an emphasis on equitable community engagement and economic strengthening.