Title
Special Recognition - Grant Awards from Washington State Department of Commerce to Complete a Westside Subarea Plan and Implement the Housing Action Plan
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Recognize the Department of Community Planning & Development has received two Washington State Department of Commerce grants. One grant is to complete a subarea plan for the Capital Mall Triangle area on Olympia's westside and the second is to implement the Housing Action Plan.
Report
Issue:
Whether to recognize the Department of Community Planning & Development has received two Washington State Department of Commerce grants. One grant is to complete a subarea plan for the Capital Mall Triangle area on Olympia's westside and the second is to implement the Housing Action Plan.
Staff Contact:
Amy Buckler, Strategic Projects Manager, Economic Development, 360.280.8947
Joyce Phillips, Principal Planner, Community Planning and Development, 360.570.3722
Presenter(s):
Joyce Phillips, Principal Planner, Community Planning and Development
Background and Analysis:
The Washington State Department of Commerce has awarded two grants to the City of Olympia:
1. $250,000 for Transit-Oriented Development and Implementation (TODI). The 2021 Washington State Legislature created this grant program to facilitate transit-oriented development and leverage investment in public transportation
services, plan for increased housing development within transit-rich areas and conduct pre-development environmental review to streamline construction.
Funds will be used to hire a professional consulting team to help carry out an 18-month long public process to develop a subarea plan and a non-project environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Capital Mall Triangle area on the westside. The public process will kick off in spring of 2022. Under the terms of the grant, a draft subarea plan and EIS must be completed by June of 20...
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