The purpose of this chapter is to establish procedures for amending the city’s comprehensive plan, including the comprehensive plan text and land use map, as well as the land use, housing, capital facilities plan, utilities, transportation, economic, and park/recreation elements of the comprehensive plan. The Growth Management Act (GMA) generally allows amendments to comprehensive plans only once per year, except as otherwise provided in RCW 36.70A.130(2)(a), so that the cumulative impacts of all proposed amendments can be analyzed. This chapter is intended to provide a process to “docket” proposed amendments for annual review, to provide timelines, to identify public participation procedures, application requirements, and review criteria for consideration of amendments to the various comprehensive plans. (Ord. 1177 § 1, 2009; Ord. 1075 § 1, 2007).