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In 2004 Seattle’s Comprehensive ("Comp") Plan
will be 10 years old. Responding to new population and employment
projections for the 20-year period spanning 2004-2024, DPD’s
Planning division has begun a legally required, 10-year update
to the Comp Plan, gathering input from the public and publishing
a wealth of information on related issues.
The Comprehensive
Planning website has been updated to include the preliminary
scopes of work for updates to four “elements” of
the Comp Plan:
- land
use
- neighborhood
planning
- transportation
- environment
Detailed issue papers are now available on:
- Updating
Urban Village Growth Targets (includes information about
growth in urban villages over the last five years)
- Improving
Urban Village Growth Monitoring (Policy L52)
- South Lake Union as an Urban Center - currently unavailable;
will become available in January 2004.
- Improving
the Land Use Element
- Development
Capacity in Urban Villages
Besides the website, DPD has been holding in-person meetings
with the general public and a number of citywide interest
groups. These meetings began with a kick-off at Garfield Community
Center on October 14, where a good-sized crowd heard from
Pulitzer-prize winning Seattle Times reporter William Dietrich,
who wrote an extensive series this year about some of the
growth-related problems and solutions that have arisen in
communities around the region.
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Get Involved
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Timeline for Comments
DPD welcomes all comments on the scope
of the Comp Plan update and issue papers (available
at left), and on other related topics until January
20, 2004.
Comments may be submitted to compplan@seattle.gov,
(206) 233-0079.
After January 20 staff will review all comments
and begin drafting amendments. A complete draft
of their preliminary recommendations will be ready
for public review and comment around April 1,
2004.
Questions?
If you have questions or would like additional
information, please contact DPD's Comprehensive
Planning Unit:
compplan@seattle.gov
(206) 233-0079
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