One Seattle Plan

What's Happening Now?

• Read our One Seattle Plan Community Meetings Report and additional materials on our Project Documents page. This feedback is what we've heard after our five in-person meetings (and one additional online meeting), from November 2022 to January 2023.
• View our January 30 One Seattle Plan Virtual Community Meeting on YouTube, and download our presentation from this meeting.
• Our Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) scoping report and detailed comment summary reports are now available. The EIS for the plan will provide the City and residents information and analysis critical to the decision-making process. Learn more in our Project Documents section and continue to provide your feedback on our Engagement Hub.
• Our Phase 1 Engagement Report will walk you through the various strategies that we used during the first months of the One Seattle Plan to engage with communities and individuals around the Comprehensive Plan Update. This report also provides an preliminary outreach overview highlighting key themes that we have heard from over 10,000 comments during Phase 1.

Seattle Comprehensive Plan major update:
How we will grow and invest in community.

The updated Seattle Comprehensive Plan will guide City decisions about where we locate housing and jobs, and where and how we invest in transportation, utilities, parks, and other public assets. Our goal is to make the city more equitable, livable, sustainable, and resilient for today's communities and future residents. 

Our Plan will address challenges new and old: racial equity, housing costs, access to economic opportunity and education, climate change, and more. While the Plan evolves from our existing Seattle 2035 Comprehensive Plan adopted in 2016 as required by the Growth Management Act, we will explore different approaches to growth and investment, along with new strategies to reduce displacement pressures.

We are closely coordinating with the Seattle Department of Transportation to ensure the updated Comprehensive Plan is aligned with the Seattle Transportation Plan, which will guide future transit and transportation infrastructure investments.

The City is committed to repairing past harms and working toward an equitable future for all. To that end, we will center the voices of Black, Indigenous, People of Color and others who are often marginalized in planning processes. This commitment is captured in our Equitable Community Engagement Ethos. We are partnering with Community Based Organizations on outreach throughout the planning process. We are also working with Community Liaisons who will be facilitating engagement on a neighborhood level.

For interactive resources and to make your voice heard:

Visit the Community Engagement Hub

Comprehensive Planning 101

Learn more about the history and purpose of our One Seattle Plan Comprehensive Plan Update.

Planning for Growth: Exploring New Approaches

Since 1994, the City's goal has been to focus most new homes, jobs, and community investments within designated urban centers and urban villages.

Updating the Comprehensive Plan will involve evaluating our current strategy as well as exploring new ideas for how Seattle can grow to be more equitable, affordable, and climate resilient. Some of the ideas we're looking at include:

• Designating new urban centers or villages, such as around future light rail stations 
• Fostering more complete neighborhoods across the city to provide more residents with walkable access to shopping, services, amenities, and transit 
• Supporting a greater variety of housing options in more neighborhoods to increase access to parks and schools as well as more affordable family-size homes and homeownership opportunities 
• Developing new tools to support communities facing displacement pressures and ensure that access to homes and jobs is more racially and economically inclusive

A Collaborative and Community Engaged Approach

The Office of Planning and Community Development is leading the effort to update our Comprehensive Plan with an approach that is designed to be broad, inclusive, collaborative, and equitable. Our full project team draws upon the breadth of work and staff groups across OPCD, including in the areas of policy development, data analysis, land use, community planning, and community development. We are collaborating with staff from numerous City departments on areas of policy development that intersect with their work now and in the future, such as housing, transportation, economic development, and the environment, to implement the Comprehensive Plan. We are engaging with key external agencies at the state, regional, and local levels.

Most important, creation of the One Seattle Plan is based in community engagement that is broad and deep, with a strong emphasis on elevating the voices and empowering communities, such as Black, Indigenous, and people of color, who have historically been underrepresented in policy processes like comprehensive planning. We are using new tools and approaches to resource equitable engagement and build capacity for community to develop recommendations that will shape the Plan toward a more equitable future for Seattle.