About Us

The region comes together at PSRC to make decisions about transportation, growth management and economic development.

PSRC develops policies and coordinates decisions about regional growth, transportation and economic development planning within King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties. PSRC is composed of nearly 100 members, including the four counties, cities and towns, ports, state and local transportation agencies and Tribal governments within the region.

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What is an MPO?

Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) are federally mandated and funded transportation policy-making organizations. The goal of metropolitan planning is to ensure that federal funding for transportation projects is part of a continuing, cooperative and comprehensive planning process. As the MPO, PSRC is responsible for developing a long-range Regional Transportation Plan and near-term Regional Transportation Improvement Program.

What is an RTPO?

Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPO) coordinate transportation planning with local comprehensive planning within the state. In urbanized areas, MPOs also serve as the RTPO and receive state funding for the increased role. As the RTPO, PSRC assists in implementing the Growth Management Act through the certification of local comprehensive plans and the creation of multicounty planning policies, which are part of VISION 2050.

What is an EDD?

Economic Development Districts (EDD) are designated by and receive funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The EDD supports a coordinated economic development planning process involving the public, private industry, non-profit organizations, and local governments to create a strategy-driven plan for regional economic development, which PSRC calls the Regional Economic Strategy.

Regional Leadership

The elected leaders of King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties, the region’s cities and towns, port districts, transit agencies, and Tribes direct PSRC’s work. Once a year, these elected officials meet as a General Assembly to vote on major decisions, approve the budget, and elect new leadership. Each month, a 36-member Executive Board makes decisions on behalf of the General Assembly with the input of several advisory boards made up of local elected officials and representatives of business, labor, environmental and community interests, as well as input from the public at large.