31.05.220 Joyce urban growth area policies and goals.
(1) The compact commercial center of Joyce provides many desirable features which should be retained and improved upon through this planning period (1994 – 2014). These features include a commercial core with a walkable radius for visitors and residents, a business core with complementary uses in close association, and the flexibility of a mix of residential, commercial and light industrial in the core area.
(a) The urban center zoning (formerly rural center) which allows a free mix of commercial, residential and light industrial land uses should be retained in the core area of Joyce. Only that portion of the Joyce urban growth area identified in urban residential and public land uses on the comprehensive plan maps is outside the core area. The core area extends along Highway 112 one-half mile to the west of the Joyce Museum and ends at Miller Road just over seven-tenths of a mile east of the Joyce Museum. The extent of urban center zoning should be maintained through the planning period (1994 – 2014) or until 80 percent of the land is fully utilized in commercial, industrial and high density residential (one-half acre lots or smaller) land use.
(b) The Joyce Community Council should develop an advisory plan for Highway 112 streetscape, landscape and building design guidelines to encourage the development of a healthy and aesthetically pleasing downtown commercial core area.
(2) Grant funding and land donations should be sought for development of a roadside park within the core commercial area of Joyce. Development of a roadside park would provide a focus area for community activities and events. It would also serve to encourage the traveling public to stop and shop in the business district. Information kiosks could direct visitors to local attractions and advertise local events.
(3) Urban Center land use designations (formerly rural center) should allow a mix of land uses which provide limited goods and services needed by residents of the surrounding area and land uses which are compatible with the rural character of Joyce.
The urban center land use designation and zoning should allow for a variety of residential, commercial, and light industrial uses consistent with the current zoning for rural centers except as follows: (a) the types of permitted retail and wholesale uses should be small-scale operations which are compatible with the generally rural character of Joyce such as: general mercantile stores, grocery stores, gas stations, mini-marts, art and crafts stores, antique stores, lumber yards and hardware stores, feed stores, tack shops, nurseries and greenhouses, beauty/barber shops, day-care centers, liquor stores, laundromats, car washes, small professional offices (such as for lawyers or chiropractors), food service establishments, and taverns; (b) bed and breakfast inns should be permitted uses in the urban growth area; (c) special uses should include recreational vehicle parks, vehicular repair, and storage facilities, which uses should have special standards requiring off-Highway 112 location or heavy screening from the highway; (d) light industrial locations should not front directly on Highway 112; and (e) kennels, mineral extraction and mineral processing, car wrecking yards and metal recycling should not be allowed within the urban growth area.
(4) That portion of the Joyce urban growth area outside of the commercial core area should allow for high density residential development with a minimum of nonresidential land use in order to encourage high quality residential development.
That portion of the Joyce urban growth area which is outside of the commercial core area and not public land should be redesignated as urban residential land use and rezoned to urban residential zoning.
(5) Multifamily housing and manufactured home development should be located within or near commercial core area of Joyce in order to provide efficient access to the transit system and to serve as a transitional area between highway commercial development and lower density residential development.
(6) The maximum parcel size for newly created residential lots within the urban growth area shall be 22,000 square feet in order to encourage urban densities within the urban growth area.
(7) Clallam County will work with the Joyce Community Council, PUD, and/or private entity to identify community septic disposal options for the Joyce urban growth area in order to foster urban density growth. Should a community drainfield be developed it should be managed by a public entity such as the PUD.
(8) Public or private urban services provided within the Joyce urban growth area should include provisions for sanitary waste, solid waste community disposal systems, water systems, urban roads, pedestrian/bicycle pathways and facilities; transit, storm water systems; police, fire, and emergency services; electricity and communications, school and health care facilities, and neighborhood and/or community parks.
(9) Clallam County and the Joyce Community Council will work with local property owners to obtain grant funding to purchase high quality wetlands on the inside periphery of the urban growth area in order to provide open space and greenbelts within the urban growth area.
(10) The urban growth area for Joyce is larger than can be justified by the population within its boundaries. Joyce does provide regional services for a much larger regional population. Due to the large size of the urban growth area, no additions to this area should be considered within the planning period unless more than eighty (80) percent of the area becomes occupied by commercial, industrial and high density residential development. Should it become necessary to expand the core area, the area to the south of the commercial core should be examined for future growth.
(11) Commercial forest resource lands found in close proximity to Joyce are very important to the rural character of the urban growth area and should be retained in commercial forest use.