Mountlake Terrace Planning Commission approves work plan, outlines housing and infrastructure priorities

The Mountlake Terrace Planning Commission on Feb. 24 accepted its Jan. 27 meeting minutes and reviewed a 2025 work plan that centers on housing code updates, a housing action plan funded with ARPA money, required revisions to the city's critical areas ordinance and updates to the water and sewer comprehensive plans.

The Commission will present the work plan and the commission's annual report to Mountlake Terrace City Council at 7 p.m. on March 13 in Council Chambers; staff prepared a memo for Chair Batista to accompany that presentation. "A couple items that we need to take care of tonight is 1 is your work plan for this year," the department presenter said while outlining timelines and tasks for the year.

Why it matters: several of the commission's tasks are driven by state law and hard deadlines. Staff told the commission the housing action plan must be adopted by June and that the city has a required update to its critical areas provisions due by the end of the year. Those statutory and regulatory timelines will shape the commission's schedule for zoning and code amendments this year.

Key items and near-term schedule

- Housing action plan and middle-housing code updates: The city will use ARPA funds to produce a housing action plan that includes a development-feasibility analysis. Staff said the plan must be adopted by June; the middle-housing…