Park planning and new developments
As Washington State Parks approaches its Centennial in 2013, the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission invites you to play an active role in planning and developing your state parks.
With your help, state parks can be even better at providing superior recreational and learning opportunities for visitors, while protecting our state's natural areas and cultural assets. State parks need your talents, skills and good ideas to become the "premier destinations of uncommon quality" that the Commission envisions for state parks in 2013.
The first step is creating land-use plans for all 120 state parks – plans that will guide the way your state parks are developed and used in the future. The planning process outlined below depends on park visitors and local communities to help guide the way. You are invited to participate.
The planning process - CAMP
The planning process, also known as the Classification and Management Planning (CAMP), includes four stages:
- Identify issues and concerns of park stakeholders.
- Explore alternative approaches to address identified issues.
- Prepare preliminary recommendations to address issues or suggest a realistic compromise.
- Propose final recommendations for formal agency and Commission adoption.
Each park planning project will go through these four stages or some similar variation, depending on the particular park. People are encouraged to participate at every stage of a planning project. The process also reflects the standards set out in the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) and information collected through the planning effort will be used to satisfy SEPA requirements.
Please share your ideas and comments
Your comments are important to us. By sending e-mail comments about a project, you will automatically be placed on the park e-mail distribution list and receive notices of public workshops and updated planning information. If you don’t want to receive e-mail notices, please let us know and we’ll take you off the list. If you would like to receive notices of workshops by mail, please provide your mailing address along with your comments.
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