Westport SMP: Periodic Review Amendment

On July 16, 2025, we approved Westport’s shoreline master program (SMP) periodic review amendment.

Westport’s updated SMP is effective July 30, 2025, 14 days after we provided notice to the City that their SMP was approved.

The Westport SMP regulates shoreline uses and activities along the City’s shoreline jurisdiction, which includes stretches of Pacific Ocean beach and Grays Harbor as well as associated wetlands. The entirety of the City’s shoreline jurisdiction is designated a Shoreline of Statewide Significance. The City’s periodic review amendment brings the SMP into compliance with state rules that have been added or changed since the City’s comprehensive SMP update in 2017. It also ensures the SMP remains consistent with amended comprehensive plans and regulations, and incorporates revisions deemed necessary to reflect changed local circumstances, new information, or improved data.

Email notices were used to notify those who had expressed prior interest. Written comments were received from six (6) parties, including the Quinault Indian Nation, the Washington Department of Natural Resources, three organizations, and one individual. Comments addressed sea level rise and coastal hazards; shoreline and riparian buffers; protections for interdunal wetlands and wetland mosaics; and the separateness of the SMP amendment from the City's critical areas ordinance update as well as the SEPA process for the proposed Westport Golf, LLC project.