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The Puget Sound Regional Council has developed a summer program for teens who want to learn about urban planning and share ideas about making the Puget Sound region a better place to live.
Summer Planning Academy (SPA) is a free leadership development initiative that encourages…
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Former Toronto mayoral candidate to address regional leaders at annual meeting.
Gil Penalosa is the founder and chair of the non-profit organization 8 80 Cities, as well as the first Ambassador of World Urban Parks. 8 80 Cities is guided by the simple but powerful idea that if…
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Maureen Howard Affordable Housing Act will Generate $20 million Per Year
The act will implement a countywide one-tenth of one percent sales tax increase for affordable housing and related services in Pierce County, which is expected to generate $20 million in revenue a year. …
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The regional household travel survey collects day-to-day information from residents in the central Puget Sound region: how we travel, where we go, how long it takes us - even where we choose to live and whether we get home deliveries. PSRC conducts this survey every two years.…
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Washington State has opened its 2023 Community Forestry Assistance Grants. These grants will support the planning, growth, and maintenance of trees in Washington’s urban areas.
The program goal is to assist communities with planning and implementing projects to improve parks and…
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PSRC is looking for public comment on its draft Public Participation Plan. The 45-day public comment period will run from March 23 to May 8, 2023.
View the draft Public Participation Plan.
The draft Public Participation Plan has an enhanced focus on equity, updated goals,…
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The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) was awarded $1.6 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation Reconnecting Communities Grant to help connect the South Park neighborhood.
South Park has historically been a home to immigrants and 74% of the neighborhood’s…
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The Executive Board is meeting Thursday, March 23 at 10:00 am.
On the agenda:
Revisions to the methodology used to distribute Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funding.
Public Participation Plan public comment period
City of Kirkland’s application for a regional growth center…
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Housing subsidies are needed in the region. The current housing crisis is not something that we can build our way out of with market-rate housing alone. It will require significant incentives, subsidies and funding as the private market cannot produce housing affordable to these…
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For Women’s History Month, PSRC examined the transportation habits of women and the changes experienced post-pandemic.
In this month's Puget Sound Trend , we analyzed data from the last three household travel surveys to see how travel purposes and priorities have…