VISION 2040 Draft Released
This edition of Regional VIEW highlights key features of both VISION 2040 and the SDEIS as well as identifying ways that you can find out more and get engaged in the final stretch.
What’s Inside?
The Background
VISION 2040 is the result of an update to VISION 2020, the region’s current growth strategy.
The SDEIS
The new SDEIS analyses the environmental impacts of the Preferred Growth Alternative, which was developed from extensive feedback and analysis of four alternatives earlier in the update of VISION 2020.
The Environmental Framework
A new feature of regional planning, the environmental framework sets the stage for the rest of VISION 2040 to better assure that the region grows in ways that are consistent with an environment that supports a high quality of life well into the future.
The Regional Growth Strategy
The regional growth strategy defines the preferred growth pattern and explains a new feature in regional planning: regional geographies identified in VISION 2040, which provide a framework for how different parts of the region fit in to the overall regional plan.
Multicounty Planning Policies
Many existing regional policies designed to support the growth strategy have been revised, and many are new to regional planning in VISION 2040.
How to Get Engaged
PSRC will hold open houses in each county to seek feedback on the draft VISION 2040 during the summer and one big region-wide public meeting at Seattle Center on August 1. More information about VISION 2040.
This issue of Regional View has been produced as a PDF file, due to its large size (8 pages).
Regional View, July 2007 [pdf 1.5 MB]
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Review and Comment Encouraged on a new Growth Management,
Economic and Transportation Strategy for the Region |
| Page 2 - | Getting to VISION 2040 |
| Page 3 - | Release of the Supplemental DEIS |
| Page 4 - | The Regional Growth Strategy |
| Page 5 - | Employment and Population Growth by Regional Geography and County 2000-2040 |
| Page 6 - | Multicounty Planning Policies |
| Page 7 - | Public Comment Period — share your thoughts |
| Page 8 - | Puget Sound Trends: 2005-2006: A Robust Period of Employment Growth |
For a print copy, contact the Information Center, info@psrc.org, 206-464-7532.
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