Title
Olympia 2045 Community Values and Vision Chapter - Public Hearing
Recommended Action
Move to approve and forward to City Council.
Report
Issue:
Whether to recommend approval of the proposed amendments to the Community Values and Vision Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan and forward to City Council.
Staff Contact:
Joyce Phillips, Planning Manager, Community Planning and Economic Development, 360.570.3722
Casey Schaufler, Associate Planner, Community Planning and Economic Development
360.753.8254
Presenter(s):
Casey Schaufler, Associate Planner
Background and Analysis:
The City of Olympia is required to update its Comprehensive Plan at least once every 10 years, to meet new Growth Management Act (GMA) requirements, to extend the planning timeline, and to plan for additional population and employment growth. The GMA includes a list of required "elements" or chapters of the Plan but does allow local government to include additional or "optional elements" as well.
Olympia's Plan includes optional elements, such as Public Participation and Partners, Natural Environment, Public Safety, and Community Values and Vision chapters.
Comprehensive Plans are designed to achieve the vision for what a community will be like in the future. Olympia's vision is developed based on the identified community values for certain topics, then the vision for what our community can be based on those shared values. These statements are then expressed at the beginning of every chapter.
These values and vision statements are developed or revised as each chapter goes through its development, public review, and adoption process. Now that each draft chapter is available, the full Community Values and Vision chapter can be reviewed.
This chapter immediately follows the Introduction chapter of the Plan. It begins with our community's Land Acknowledgement, a powerful statement acknowledging that the land where Olympia now sits is within the traditional lands of the Steh-Chass band ...
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