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King County heat strategy urges regional push on heat pumps, cooling centers and tree canopy
Summary
King County presented a countywide five‑year extreme heat mitigation strategy, highlighting 20 actions spanning immediate cooling resources to long‑term urban canopy and building‑code changes; Redmond councilmembers asked about smoke overlap, community‑led cooling and funding.
Dania Eyes, climate preparedness project manager at King County’s executive climate office, and Jenny Liebeck, Redmond sustainability manager, briefed the Parks and Environmental Sustainability Committee of the Whole on July 22 on a countywide extreme heat mitigation strategy intended to guide work from 2024 through 2029.
The strategy, developed with input from about 900 people across King County and provided to council as meeting material, lays out 20 actions organized from near‑term public health communications and cooling access to longer‑term changes such as urban tree canopy and building code updates. Dania Eyes said the plan is intended to be “a…
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