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Planning Division
Purpose
The Planning Division assists the public with zoning, critical area reviews and other inquiries. Planning Division staff processes applications for:
- Aquifer Recharge Reviews
- Boundary Line Adjustments
- Certificates of Zoning Compliance
- Conditional Uses
- Rural Housing Certificates
- Rural Residential Site Reviews
- SEPA Environmental Checklists
- Shoreline Permits
- Short Plats
- Variances
- Zone Changes
Departmental Responsibilities
- Board of Adjustment
- Boundary Line Adjustments
- County Comprehensive Plan
- County Shorelines
- County Wetlands
- County Zoning
- Flood Plain Permits
- Forest Practice Notices
- Land Use Permits
- Planning Commission
- SEPA
- Short, Long Plats, Subdivisions
Next Meeting or Hearing
Board of Adjustment (BOA) Hearing - March 12, 2026
Planning Commission (PC) Meeting - March 18, 2026
Planning Documents
- Boundary Line Adjustment (BLA) - Application (PDF)
- Conditional Use Permit (CUP) - Application (PDF)
- Floodplain Development Permit - Application (PDF)
- Land Surveyors List (PDF)
- Pondering the Palouse? (PDF)
- Rural Housing Certificate (RHC) - Application (PDF)
- Rural Housing Certificate (RHC) - Buffer Waiver (PDF)
- Rural Residential Site Review (RRSR) - Application (PDF)
- State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) Environmental Checklist (WAC 197-11-960) (PDF)
- Voluntary Stewardship Program (VSP) - Work Plan (PDF)
- Wetlands Consultants List (PDF)
- Whitman County Shorelines Master Plan (PDF)
- Zone Change (ZC) - Application (PDF)
- Zoning Variance (ZV) - Application (PDF)