Title
Olympia 2045 Community Values and Vision Chapter Briefing
Recommended Action
Information and discussion only. No action requested.
Report
Issue:
Discussion on the draft Community Values and Vision Chapter.
Staff Contact:
Joyce Phillips, Planning Manager, Community Planning and Economic Development, 360.570.3722
Presenter(s):
Joyce Phillips, Planning Manager
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 of indigenous people of the Squaxin Island Tribe, who were removed from their land for the settlement that became Olympia. This section is proposed to be expanded, to recognize the Accord ...
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