The Board of Cowlitz County Commissioners believes it to be to the best interests of Cowlitz County and the citizens thereof to establish a Boundary Review Board for Cowlitz County to achieve the following objectives:
A.
Preservation of natural neighborhoods and communities;
B.
Use of physical boundaries, including but not limited to bodies of water, highways, and land contours;
C.
Creation and preservation of logical service areas;
D.
Prevention of abnormally irregular boundaries;
E.
Discouragement of multiple incorporation of small cities and encouragement of incorporation of cities in excess of 10,000 population in heavily populated urban areas;
F.
Dissolution of inactive special purpose districts;
G.
Adjustment of impractical boundaries; and
H.
Incorporation as cities or towns or annexation to cities or towns of unincorporated areas which are urban in character.
(Res. 1856, preamble, 11-25-1969)