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Agenda Item:
Approval of Resolution Accepting the Urban Corridors Task Force Report
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Issue:
City Council adoption of this Resolution demonstrates support for the Urban Corridors Task Force recommendations and a willingness to partner with other jurisdictions to pursue the recommendations.
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a Council Committee. Mayor Buxbaum and former Mayor Mah served on the Urban Corridors Task Force. The Transportation Policy Board and Thurston Regional Planning Council endorse the report and forward these recommendations to jurisdictions and agencies in the metropolitan area.
City Manager's Recommendation:
Move to adopt the Urban Corridors Task Force Resolution
Staff Contact:
Sophie Stimson, Senior Planner, 360.753.8497
Presenter(s):
None - Consent Calendar Item.
Background and Analysis:
This region's transportation policies and investments are predicated on achieving land-use patterns described in adopted Comprehensive Plans. Those local Comprehensive Plans have resulted in many successes. However, despite progressive land-use and transportation policies in the cities, little mixed-use, transit-supportive development or redevelopment is locating along this region's key urban corridors.
Thurston Regional Planning Council (TRPC) actively monitors progress towards achieving adopted land-use visions. As a result of this on-going inability to attract mixed-use residential development investments to urban corridors, TRPC convened the Urban Corridors Task Force (UCTF) in 2009.
UCTF members include policy makers from Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater, Thurston County, Intercity Transit, and North Thurston Public Schools, as well as citizen and business representatives from TRPC's Transportation Policy Board.
The task force report presents recommendations for overcoming barriers to achieving more compact, transit-supportive land-use patterns in the metropolitan area of Lacey, Olympia, and Tumwater.
The report asks this r...
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