Forms and fees
Homeowners

Land use applications and fees must be hand delivered to the Permit Center, 1300 Franklin St., Vancouver.

A developer's packet is required for many land use applications and is available in the GIS Department.

- Changes to an existing home
- Building a new home
- Modifying your parcel
- Adjusting / dividing your land
- Other land use processes
- Environmental
- Complete list of land use forms

All forms are PDF files.

Changes to an existing home	Revised date
Adding an accessory dwelling unit	02/10/12
Siting garden sheds, gazebos and play structures	09/27/11
Establishing a home business - Minor - Major	02/16/12 03/26/12
Private Kennel	03/08/12
Residential building setbacks	05/27/11
Building a new home (see building forms also)	Revised date
Address only - Provides an address to a property where other building permits have not yet been issued	09/01/11
Sewer waiver – New structures and land divisions within Urban Growth Areas are required to connect to a public sewer system unless a sewer waiver is approved	04/13/12
Modifying your parcel	Revised date
Boundary line adjustment - allows for the adjustment of lot lines that conform to zoning requirements	02/28/13
Legal lot determination – process used to determine if a parcel of land is legal for building	04/30/12
Lot reconfiguration - used to adjust the boundaries of existing legal nonconforming lots to create lots less than the current minimum lot size in Forest, Agricultural, and Urban Holding Districts	02/10/12
Adjusting / dividing your land	Revised date
Pre-application conference – process for an applicant to present a development proposal to staff and to become informed about the application review and approval process	04/30/12
Pre-application conference waiver – used to waive the pre-application conference process only for relatively simple applications	04/30/12
Short plat – process to divide land into nine or less urban lots and four or less rural lots	04/30/12
Other land use processes	Revised date
Appeal - process used to appeal a land use decision	09/01/11
Columbia Gorge permit See also: www.gorgecommision.org/handbooks.cfm	04/30/12
Variance - provides relief to property owners where application of the Clark County Code may cause a hardship due to unusual circumstances of the land	04/30/12
Zone change – Used to change the zoning designation of a parcel of land when a property owner wants to establish a use that is not permitted within the existing zoning	04/30/12
Environmental	Revised date
Archaeological review - used to determine if cultural resources are present on a property	09/01/11
SEPA - Review under the State Environmental Policy Act to ensure that governmental agencies consider the environmental impacts of a proposal	02/10/12
Shoreline - used to review a development proposal that could impact shoreline areas of local and statewide significance	04/30/12
Shoreline exemption - used for minor residential developments that will not require a shoreline substantial development permit	09/18/12

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Forms and fees Homeowners

Land use applications and fees must be hand delivered to the Permit Center, 1300 Franklin St., Vancouver.

Forms and fees
Homeowners