2025 Comprehensive Plan ("One Seattle Plan") Renewal Process

Overview

In early 2025, the Mayor’s Office, in partnership with the Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD), will transmit two pieces of legislation on the Comprehensive Plan (“One Seattle Plan”) to the City Council for deliberation and adoption. The Council was scheduled to amend this base legislation throughout the first 6 months of 2025.

Due to six separate legal challenges to the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) the Select Committee will transition to considering interim legislation to implement Washington State House Bill 1110 (also called the Middle Housing bill). This law requires additional housing types in all single-family residential zones across the state.

The Select Committee aims to conclude consideration of interim legislation by May 30, 2025 due to state compliance deadlines. The Select Committee will also hold another public hearing before May 21, 2025, where the public will be able to weigh in on interim Middle Housing legislation. Notice of the public hearing date will be issued at least one month in advance.

What is the Comprehensive Plan?

Seattle’s Comprehensive Plan is a roadmap for where and how our city will grow and invest in our communities over the next 20 years and beyond. 

For the latest information and documents, visit the One Seattle Plan page.

How to Make Your Voice Heard

The 2025 Select Committee on the Comprehensive Plan anticipates hosting three public hearings, one each in February, April, and May.

• You can submit your comments and questions to councilmembers via email. Addressing your message to council@seattle.gov will send it to all nine council offices.
• You can give public comment at any of the remaining meetings of the Select Committee on the Comprehensive Plan. This webpage has more information about how you can sign up.

Council Meetings on the Comprehensive Plan

The Select Committee on the Comprehensive Plan, made up of all 9 Councilmembers, will begin meeting on Jan. 6, 2025. Due to legal challenges the committee is not expected to cast final votes on the proposed Comprehensive Plan package until the second half of 2025, or even possibly 2026. 

NOTE: Additional meeting dates after Feb. 5, including future public hearings, will be posted as soon as they are available. 

Background

Resources that help inform the City Council's review of the Comprehensive Plan include:

Proposed Comprehensive Plan documents

• OPCD Project Documents
• Zoning Map Engagement Hub

King County's Vision 2050

Seattle's Comprehensive Plan must be consistent with the plan for the four-county region, Vision 2050, and with King County's Countywide Planning Policies.

Equitable Development Monitoring Program

• An ongoing source of data and analysis to inform work to reduce race-based disparities, advance equity, and combat displacement.
• Community Indicators: To gauge progress on housing affordability, neighborhood livability, transportation, and education and economic opportunity.
• Heightened Displacement Risk Indicators: To increase our understanding of displacement and detect heightened displacement risks.

Housing Choices

We have done significant work to understand the housing market and what types of new housing people want to see more of. The Market-rate Housing Needs and Supply Analysis (by BERK Consulting, 2021) provides detailed information on market-rate housing needs and supply today and over the next 20 years.

We also conducted significant outreach as part of the Housing Choices Initiative to understand the housing needs of people who live and work in Seattle and identify opportunities to shape market-rate housing development to serve these needs.

Feedback received as part of this work is summarized in the Housing Choices Public Engagement Summary.