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Policy audit finds core gaps and opportunities to shape Lake Forest Park climate element
Summary
A consultant policy audit identified gaps and opportunities across topic areas (community well‑being, extreme heat, wildfire/smoke, drought, flooding, buildings/energy, transportation/land use, and solid waste). The team recommended moving targeted policies into a climate element while referencing supportive documents.
Maddie, the project planner presenting the policy audit, told CPAT the audit catalogued existing policies in Lake Forest Park’s core planning documents and a set of supportive plans to identify gaps and opportunities for the climate element.
The audit distinguished “core” documents (those required or central to the comprehensive plan update) from “supportive” documents (implementation and topic‑specific plans such as the climate action plan and PROS plan). Maddie said the distinction is to prioritize strengthening the comprehensive plan’s climate policy first and then to draw from supportive documents to fill gaps. "The goal with the policy audit is to see where things stand there and measure the gaps and opportunities in those…
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