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TUKWILA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />Southcenter, Tukwila's Urban Center <br />SOUTHCENTER - TUKWILA'S URBAN <br />CENTER <br />PURPOSE <br />Tukwila's Southcenter area is intended to develop as a high - density, regionally oriented, mixed -use <br />center. In 1995, the Southcenter area was designated as a regional growth center under the Puget <br />Sound Regional Council's (PSRC) Vision 2040, and as an urban center under the King County <br />Countywide Planning Policies. The vision for Southcenter is consistent with both documents. <br />Urban centers are described in King County'sthe Countywide Planning Policies as areas of <br />concentrated employment and housing, with direct service by high- capacity transit. They are to <br />encompass a wide range of land uses, including retail, recreation, public facilities, parks, residential, <br />and open space. They encourage the growth of each urban center as a unique, vibrant community <br />that is attractive to live and work. Centers should support efficient public services including transit, <br />and respond to local needs and markets for jobs and housing. <br />In Vision 2040, regional growth centers are intended to be compact areas of high - intensity <br />residential and employment development, with a mix of land uses including housing, jobs, <br />recreation and shopping. <br />The designation of regional growth centers is a key element of the regional strategy to preserve <br />resource lands and protect rural lands from urban -type development by promoting infill and <br />redevelopment within urban areas to create more compact, walkable, sustainable and transit - <br />friendly communities. In 1995 Tukwila's urban center, Southeenter, was designated one of the <br />region's urban centers, in keeping with a desire for development as a high density, regionally <br />oriented, mixed use center. <br />The vision for Southcenter is consistent with Puget Sound Regional Council's Vision 2010, the <br />adopted regional grov4h strategy which provides guidance to cities and counties for <br />accommmodating future growth. The strategy is designed to preserve re 'ource lands and protect rural <br />lands from urban type development by promoting infill and redevelopment within urban areas to <br />create more compact, walkable, sustainable and transit friendly communities. <br />All levels of government in the central Puget Sound's four counties use Vision 2-010 as a regional <br />framework for making local decisions. King County was required to prepare broad Countywide <br />Planning Policies (CPPs) that comply with both the growth principles of the Groh Management <br />Act and the more directive policies of the Multi County Planning Policies (Vision 2010). <br />Under These strategies direct ' the majority of the region's employment and housing growth i- <br />targeted tto occur in Metropolitan Cities and Core Citiesurban centers . Tukwila is a Core City with <br />a designated urban center intended to become in the form of compact, sustainable communitiesy <br />where housing and jobs are located in a manner that provides for easy mobility and accessibility. <br />raft May 2013 <br />Comment [LM1]: Edited for clarity & <br />readability. Shortened. <br />1 <br />11 <br />