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Sammamish staff outlines comprehensive plan update: growth targets, housing mandates and climate resilience central
Summary
City planning staff outlined the city’s updated comprehensive plan and future land-use map Feb. 13, emphasizing a 2,100-unit growth target, housing allocations under recent state bills, directing growth to centers and advances on climate-resiliency policies.
City planning staff presented Sammamish’s updated comprehensive plan to the Sustainability Commission on Feb. 13, emphasizing direction to concentrate future growth in centers, accommodate state-mandated affordable-housing allocations, and expand climate-change resilience and transportation planning.
The presentation outlined the policy chain that drives local plans: the state Growth Management Act provides population forecasts; the Puget Sound Regional Council (“Vision 2050”) apportions growth across the region; King County’s countywide planning policies distribute allocations to jurisdictional cohorts; and cities then adopt comprehensive plans that show how they will accommodate assigned growth. For Sammamish the city’s 20-year planning benchmark is a growth target of 2,100 residential units.…
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