| To encourage public involvement in the coming
10-year update to Seattle’s Comprehensive (“Comp”)
Plan, the City’s blueprint for managing growth, DCLU and
the Seattle Planning Commission will host a public workshop
on October 14 featuring Seattle Times staff reporter William
Dietrich as keynote speaker.
Dietrich, whose coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill won
him a Pulitzer prize, wrote a series of articles for Pacific
Northwest magazine over the past year on the challenges of
growth in the Puget Sound area. Based on conversations with
people around the Northwest, his series observed both successes
and failures in dealing with growth.
Dietrich’s workshop presentation will set the stage
for discussion on updating Seattle’s Comp Plan, which
guides decisions about how much growth Seattle should take,
where growth should be located, and how it affects land use,
transportation, housing, capital facilities, and utilities.
The workshop on the Comp Plan update will be held from 7-9
p.m. at the Garfield Community Center, located at 2323 East
Cherry Street. Planning Commissioners and staff from DCLU
and other City departments will be on hand to talk about the
kinds of changes being considered and the process involved
in the update. Preliminary issues identified for reexamination
include:
- designating South Lake Union neighborhood as an urban
center,
- adding Northgate policies,
- monitoring growth in neighborhoods ,
- refining citywide environmental goals,
- establishing transportation goals for Urban Centers,
- connecting the Plan’s transportation policies with
specific actions, and
- using the Plan to more directly affect City investments.
State law requires that the City update the Plan by December
2004. The Comp Plan was first adopted in 1994 and currently
covers the period to 2014. The update will include new citywide
targets for households and jobs, and will extend the Plan
an additional 10 years into the future to 2024.
Earlier this year DCLU published two reports on how the city
has changed from the time the Comp Plan was first adopted;
these are called ”Monitoring Our Progress” and “Urban
Village Case Studies.” The monitoring report shows, by
neighborhood, how many new housing units and jobs have been
added. It also tracks change for about 30 other indicators
that address some of the Plan’s key policy areas. “Urban
Village Case Studies” looks in depth at five neighborhoods
and the types of changes that occurred in them since the Comp
Plan and neighborhood plans were adopted.
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Attend the Workshop
The workshop will be held on Tuesday, October
14, 2003, from 7-9 p.m. at the Garfield Community
Center, 2323 E. Cherry Street.
Related Links
For More Information
Information on the update process, as well as
background material on the Comp Plan, will be
posted on DCLU’s Comprehensive
Planning website as it becomes available.
If you have questions, please contact contact
the Comp Plan staff at (206) 233-0079 or compplan@
seattle.gov.
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