Planning
This page is intended to provide information on planning and growth management issues relevant to Washington cities and counties. If you have information to share (e.g., ordinances, sample policies, issue papers, etc.) or if you are aware of other Web sites that we should link to, please contact Sue Enger, MRSC Planning Consultant at senger@mrsc.org, or Carol Tobin, MRSC Planning Consultant, at ctobin@mrsc.org, or call (206) 625-1300.
Contents
- Agricultural Lands
- Annexation
- Capital Facilities
- Census Information - Census 2000 and 2010
- Climate Change
- Comprehensive Planning/Growth Management
- Concurrency Ordinances
- Cottage Housing
- Critical Areas
- Demographic Change and Local Government
- Design Review
- Designing Transportation Facilities for Pedestrians and Bicycles
- Development Regulations (including zoning, critical areas, etc.)
- Economic Development
- Effective Communication and Citizen Involvement
- Endangered Species: Salmon
- Energy Resources - Green Power
- Environment (including shoreline management, forest practices, SEPA, water rights, etc.)
- Flexibility in Environmental Regulation
- Flexible Regulatory and Non-Regulatory Incentive Tools
- Forests, Trees, and Landscaping
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- GMA Plan/Development Regulations Updates
- Green Building Design
- Healthy Communities (including designing)
- Hearing Examiner System in Washington
- Historic Preservation
- Housing
- Impact Fees
- Incorporation
- Infill Development
- Intergovernmental Agreements
- Parks and Recreation
- Planning Commission
- Planning Fees
- Planning Illustrated
- Planning Procedures and Practices (including regulatory reform, and permit assistance)
- Planner's Pocket Reference
- Regulation of Large Retail Establishments (Big Box Retail)
- Regulatory Takings
- Rural Land Use & Development
- Sign Control
- Siting of Secure Community Transition Facilities
- Smart Growth
- Subdivisions
- Telecommunications
- Transportation
- Vested Rights
- Watershed Planning