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Pasco planning commission begins multi-year comprehensive-plan update; transportation, climate and energy studies to feed process
Summary
City staff told the Pasco Planning Commission the city has begun a periodic comprehensive plan update and three related studies — a transportation master plan, a regional climate and greenhouse-gas study, and an energy-resilience study — and outlined a schedule, early findings and next steps for public outreach.
The Pasco Planning Commission received a multi-project briefing on the city’s periodic comprehensive plan update and three related studies, city staff said, and was asked to expect sustained engagement over the next 18 months.
The briefing summarized the comprehensive plan kickoff and early work by consultants on transportation, regional climate planning and an electrical/energy-resilience study. City staff said the projects are separate contracts but will inform each other and the comprehensive-plan update.
City staff said the city selected Framework (the consultant team that previously worked on the downtown master plan) through an RFP to lead the comprehensive-plan update. “We’re obviously in May 2025 just beginning to kick off the effort,” Craig, city staff, told the commission, and staff held an initial kickoff on May 9 and expect to hold a city-council kickoff on June 9. The staff presentation included a preliminary schedule that shows outreach and draft work continuing into late 2026.
Commissioners heard that several…
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