fully contained communities
Housing and growth issues surround Skagit County consideration of ‘fully contained community’ proposal
November 18, 2021
Lauren Gallup
Mostly rural Skagit County — with a population density about half of Whatcom County to the north and one-sixth of Snohomish County to the south — has a big-county problem: housing. Planners are looking at solutions including a comp plan amendment to allow “fully contained communities,” or FCCs, to create urban villages in currently rural zones.