November 2002
| Table of Contents |
| Puget Sound Milestones . . . monitoring VISION 2020 and Destination 2030 |
| Monitoring Report Profiles Region's Growth Centers | |
| The Regional Council is putting the finishing touches on a new monitoring report, Central Puget Sound Regional Growth Centers. The report details population, employment, and housing trends for the region's 21 designated urban growth centers. The report also takes a first look at the region's eight designated manufacturing/industrial centers. Derived from VISION 2020, the regional growth center designation signifies an area that is targeted for population, housing and employment growth as well as transportation funds. The Growth Management Policy Board has been working on issues associated with the region's growth and manufacturing/industrial centers for the last six months. The effort started with a workshop held in February that convened representatives of the regional centers with members of both the Transportation and Growth Management policy boards to discuss existing center characteristics and future plans. | |
| The Central Puget Sound Regional Growth Centers monitoring report brings together new census data and conclusions from the workshop, along with direction that the Growth Management Policy Board has provided over the last six months. One of the primary findings is that present methods of identifying and designating regional growth and manufacturing/industrial centers are inconsistent among the four counties and lack sufficient regional guidance. This has led to different processes being used in each county and has resulted in a wide range of different types of centers being designated. Issues such as this, highlighted in the report, will lead to ongoing work by the Growth Management Policy Board. After reviewing and discussing the report at its September and October 2002 meetings, the board took action on several recommendations related to centers and the implementation of VISION 2020. One action directed staff to prepare criteria that could be applied by the Regional Council in reviewing and potentially endorsing proposed new regional growth centers. The Growth Management Policy Board will review the draft criteria at its November meeting, and then release them to countywide planning groups, regional staff committees, and other interested parties for comment. The draft criteria will be brought back to the Growth Management Policy Board in early 2003, when it will make a final recommendation to the Executive Board. |
Highlights From the Report
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| The full report will be available on the Regional Council's Web site, psrc.org, in December 2002. For more information, contact Ben Bakkenta at (206) 464-5372 or bbakkenta@psrc.org. | |
Workshop on Transportation Concurrency
| When | ...... | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 9 am - 4 pm Registration begins at 8:30 am, lunch is included |
| Where | ...... | St. Andrew's Fellowship Hall 2650 - 148th Avenue S.E. - Bellevue |
Regional Bikestations Project Completed The Regional Council recently completed a Regional Bike-stations Project -- in partnership with King County Metro, Pierce Transit, Everett Transit and Sound Transit -- using funds from an Enhancements transportation grant. The project is designed to assist transit agencies to better accommodate bicycles at their transit stations and park-and-ride lots. The project outlines a detailed regionally coordinated bike parking program and how to make such a program successful in the Puget Sound region. Specifically the project developed four products:
- A methodology to estimate bicycle demand at transit stations and park-and-ride lots. The methodology will help transit agencies gauge bike parking demand at any transit station location based on local demographic and other data, providing a platform for deciding how much and what kind of bike parking to provide.
- A study examining the feasibility of constructing bike-stations at four demonstration locations: Montlake Flyer Stop, King Street Station, Everett Multimodal Station and Tacoma Dome Station. The study makes recommendations for the accommodation of bike parking at these locations based on estimated bike parking demand and other factors.
- Design guidelines for accommodating different levels of bike parking demand at transit stations and park-and-ride lots. Detailed construction drawings were created for covered bike racks and controlled-access bike cages making it easy for the transit agencies to implement the new design guidelines. The term "bike-and-ride" is a generic term used to refer to a bikestation, bike cage, or covered bike rack at a transit facility.
- A regionally coordinated marketing plan and graphic design tool kit were crafted to promote the use of existing and future bike-and-rides. The graphic design tool kit includes logos and a template brochure to be used to spread the word about the regional bike parking program.
King County Metro, Everett Transit and Pierce Transit received a portion of the Bikestations grant as seed money to design and construct demonstration bike-and-rides based on the findings of the feasibility study. Each bike-and-ride will be comprised of different components and features, depending on estimated demand, level and type of transit service, and other factors. Each agency is at a different phase of planning and implementation for their bike-and-ride. The four demonstration bike-and-rides will be located at King Street Station, Montlake Flyer Stop, Everett Multimodal Station and Tacoma Dome Station. For more information or to download a copy of the full final report, visit www.psrc.org/projects/nonmotorized/stationsproject.htm or contact the Information Center at (206) 464-7532 or infoctr@psrc.org.
Poverty Status in Puget Sound Region
| Sample data from the 2000 Census shows no clear trends in poverty status changes in the central Puget Sound region over the past decade. Several measures of poverty have improved since 1990, but the percent of individuals living in poverty has increased slightly, from 8.5% to 8.6%. Despite this increase, the proportion of families in poverty has dropped from 6% to 5.8%. | Poverty level is determined by household size and age composition. For example, for a 3-person household including 2 children, the poverty threshold is $13,410. |
The number of persons living in households whose 1999 income fell below the official poverty line increased at about the same rate as the population or 20% since 1990. However, fewer young and elderly people are living in poverty. King and Snohomish counties have seen small increases in the percent of persons falling below the poverty level, mostly among adults 18 to 64. Three of the five major cities in the four counties recorded increases in the percentage of total population residing in households with income below the poverty line. Bremerton in particular has nearly one-fifth of its population below the poverty level, compared to 18% in 1990, primarily among those 18 to 64 years old, while Everett has seen its population in poverty go from 12 to 13%, mostly among the elderly. Single parent families make up a higher percentage of all families in 2000 than they did in 1990, but they are less likely to fall below the poverty level. They are now 20.7% of all families in the region, up from 18.2%, but only 16.4% of them are in poverty compared to 20.9% in 1990. Families headed by a female with no husband present have increased slightly as a percentage of all families in the region, but 5% fewer are living below the poverty level. Twenty-five percent of families headed by a female with no husband present and who is responsible for children under the age of 18 are living in poverty, compared to 33% in 1990. This rate of poverty is over four times that of all families. Bremerton has shown some unusual characteristics. The number of families headed by a male who is responsible for children under 18 and no wife present has tripled, quadrupling the poverty rate for this family type in the city of Bremerton. Please note that the actual numbers used to determine the percentages are still quite low, less than 500 households. The full version of this trend is available on the Regional Council's Web site, psrc.org. For more information, contact Neil Kilgren at (206) 464-7964 or nkilgren@psrc.org. For the official government definition of poverty, see http://www.census. gov/hhes/www/poverty.html.
| Table 1. Population by Age and Poverty Status | |||||
| Percent of Pop. Living in Households Below Poverty Level | |||||
| County/ City | Year | Total | Under 18 Years | 18 to 64 Years | 65 Years and Over |
| King | 2000 | 8.4% | 9.9% | 8.0% | 7.4% |
| 1990 | 8.0% | 9.8% | 7.4% | 7.3% | |
| Kitsap | 2000 | 8.8% | 11.5% | 8.0% | 6.0% |
| 1990 | 9.4% | 12.8% | 8.0% | 7.9% | |
| Pierce | 2000 | 10.5% | 13.6% | 9.6% | 7.2% |
| 1990 | 11.4% | 15.5% | 10.0% | 9.1% | |
| Snohomish | 2000 | 6.9% | 8.1% | 6.2% | 7.8% |
| 1990 | 6.6% | 8.7% | 5.6% | 6.9% | |
| Region | 2000 | 8.6% | 10.5% | 8.0% | 7.3% |
| 1990 | 8.5% | 11.1% | 7.7% | 7.7% | |
| Bellevue | 2000 | 5.7% | 5.9% | 5.5% | 6.3% |
| 1990 | 5.6% | 7.5% | 5.2% | 4.5% | |
| Bremerton | 2000 | 19.4% | 26.4% | 18.1% | 11.4% |
| 1990 | 18.1% | 27.6% | 15.9% | 10.4% | |
| Everett | 2000 | 12.9% | 16.8% | 11.4% | 12.1% |
| 1990 | 12.0% | 18.4% | 10.1% | 8.9% | |
| Seattle | 2000 | 11.8% | 14.5% | 11.5% | 10.2% |
| 1990 | 12.4% | 16.2% | 12.2% | 9.0% | |
| Tacoma | 2000 | 15.9% | 21.1% | 14.7% | 10.9% |
| 1990 | 16.8% | 23.4% | 14.9% | 12.3% | |
| Table 2. Poverty Status by Family Type | |||||
| Percent of Families Below Poverty Level by Category | |||||
| Other (Non-Married) Households | |||||
| Female-Headed | |||||
| County/ City | Year | All Families | Male-Headed | Related Child. Under 18 | No Related Child. Under 18 |
| King | 2000 | 5.3% | 8.4% | 23.4% | 5.2% |
| 1990 | 5.0% | 8.7% | 28.5% | 5.8% | |
| Kitsap | 2000 | 6.3% | 11.8% | 30.3% | 8.2% |
| 1990 | 7.5% | 8.0% | 47.1% | 7.1% | |
| Pierce | 2000 | 7.5% | 11.5% | 29.6% | 5.2% |
| 1990 | 8.7% | 11.7% | 41.5% | 9.0% | |
| Snohomish | 2000 | 4.9% | 7.6% | 22.1% | 4.3% |
| 1990 | 4.9% | 8.9% | 29.6% | 4.3% | |
| Region | 2000 | 5.8% | 9.2% | 25.3% | 5.2% |
| 1990 | 6.0% | 9.3% | 33.2% | 6.3% | |
| Bellevue | 2000 | 3.8% | 4.7% | 20.1% | 3.7% |
| 1990 | 3.4% | 10.0% | 20.2% | 3.7% | |
| Bremerton | 2000 | 16.0% | 24.6% | 44.1% | 13.1% |
| 1990 | 5.5% | 7.6% | 68.3% | 6.9% | |
| Everett | 2000 | 10.1% | 11.6% | 32.8% | 8.0% |
| 1990 | 9.9% | 15.5% | 43.9% | 9.1% | |
| Seattle | 2000 | 6.9% | 10.6% | 26.8% | 6.8% |
| 1990 | 7.4% | 10.9% | 34.9% | 7.0% | |
| Tacoma | 2000 | 11.4% | 15.2% | 35.4% | 5.3% |
| 1990 | 12.5% | 17.0% | 47.1% | 9.6% | |
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