HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning 2022-02-24 Item 3 - Overview of GMA, Countywide Planning and Countywide Planning PoliciesKing County
OVERVIEW OF COUNTYWIDE PLANNING
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
PRESENTATION FOR
CITY OF TUKWILA PLANNING COMMISSION
TODAY'S
PRESENTATION
• What is the countywide planning structure
• Who are the groups and what do they do
• About the 2021 Countywide Planning Policies
• What does this mean for Tukwila
Questions welcome during presentation
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Growth Management Act
(WA State)
Multicounty Planning Policies — VISION 2050
(PSRC)
Countywide Planning Policies
(King County and Cities)
Comprehensive Plan
IN
Functional Plans
Zoning Code
Budgets
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Development / Construction
IMPLEMENTING
GROWTH
MANAGEMENT
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WHO ARE THE MAIN GROUPS?
- Puget Sound Regional Council
• Four County membership — 82 cities, 4 counties, tribes, districts, others
• Federal Metropolitan Planning Organization
• State Regional Transportation Planning Organization
• Staff for federal Economic Development District
• Distribute federal transportation dollars
• Adopt multicounty planning policies & regional growth strategy
• Certify Comprehensive Plans for conformity and consistency with GMA and
VISION 2050
• Convener for multiple topic areas
WHO ARE THE MAIN GROUPS?
-Growth Management Planning Council
• Formed in 1992 to establish Countywide Planning Policies
• Coordination body formed by Interlocal Agreement
• Voting members are King County, Seattle, Bellevue, Sound Cities
• Schools and Special Purpose Districts have non-voting seats
• Supported by an Interjurisdictional Staff Team
• In 2019, GMPC formed an Affordable Housing Committee,
• Committee has its own Housing Interjurisdictional Team
WHAT WORK DOES GMPC OVERSEE?
IN Countywide
Planning Policies
KC Growth &
Industrial Center
Designations
Pop. & Housing
Growth Targets
Coordination on
other countywide
topics
Urban Growth
Area boundary
changes
WHO ARE THE MAIN GROUPS?
Sound Cities Association
• Cities in King County other than Seattle
• 38 Cities. One Million Residents. One Voice.
"To lead King County cities with a population less than 150,000 that act locally and
partner regionally to create livable vital communities through advocacy, education,
leadership, mutual support and networking."
• Discuss common problems
• Obtain greater understanding and coordination
• Increase knowledge
• Assist Association of Washington Cities
• Act as spokesperson in regional affairs and policy
Carnation
Federal
Way
2021 COUNTYWIDE
PLANNING POLICIES
• Guidance for the comprehensive plans
• Urban growth area boundary and criteria for
revising growth boundary
• Housing Unit and Employment Growth targets
for each jurisdiction (2019-2044)
• Criteria for defining urban centers and
manufacturing/industrial centers
• Policies for issues of a countywide nature
• Six Chapters: Environment, Development
Patterns, Transportation, Economy, Public
Facilities
2021 COUNTYWIDE PLANNING POLICIES
• Updated to align with:
• PSRC's VISION 2050 and Regional Centers Framework
• GMA changes
• King County Affordable Housing Committee Action Plan
• Update Urban Growth Capacity Study (a.k.a. Buildable Lands Report)
• Status
• GMPC recommended in June 2021
• King County Council adopted in December 21
• Ratification deadline April 6, 2022
High Level List of
NEW COUNTYWIDE PLANNING POLICY TOPICS
• Social Equity across all chapters
• Increasing access to opportunity
• Mitigating against displacement
• Equitable engagement
• Achieving health equity
• Frontline communities
• Climate change subsection added to Environment Chapter
• Greenhouse gas reduction goals streamlined and updated
• Revised centers framework, including countywide centers
• New growth targets
High Level List of
NEW COUNTYWIDE PLANNING POLICY TOPICS
• Housing Chapter overhaul
• Updated countywide need
• Emphasis on strategies to develop housing affordable to households <80%
AMI
• Updated housing needs analysis guidance
• Document effects of exclusionary and discriminatory practices and efforts
to dismantle
• Monitoring progress through Affordable Housing Dashboard
• Transportation emphasis on creating an equitable and safe network
• Emphasized connections between climate change and public service delivery
GROWTH TARGETS: BACKGROUND
Growth targets are:
• Serve as land use assumption in Comprehensive Plans:
the amount of housing and jobs each jurisdiction will plan
for in 2024 comprehensive plans
• For the urban area only
• For at least a 20 -year period (2019-2044)
• Created collaboratively by all cities and King County
Ployrote
FUTURE COUNTYWIDE WORK
Affordable Housing Sammamish Growth
Work Targets
Climate Change
Planning
OFM Forecast,
Target Consistency
Urban Growth
Area Expansion
Policies
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR TUKWILA?
• Tough question
• Depends what is already in the Plan
• Process preserves local discretion for how to implement provisions
• There is no CPP -Comp Plan consistency review
• PSRC's Certification focuses on MPPs/GMA and local plans
• And, if specific targets are set countywide, or by the State, there could be a
process to determine local shares
• Climate Change Emissions reductions
• Affordable Housing and Special Needs Housing