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Regional Economic Strategy
Amazing Place: Growing jobs and opportunity in the central Puget Sound region
Amazing Place is a data driven regional economic strategy that identifies leading sectors and the ways the region intends...
HIP Tool: Design Guidelines
Background
What issues do design guidelines address?
Design guidelines represent community aspirations for future development. They can play a significant role in winning community support for...
HIP Tool: Community Outreach Plans
Background
What issues do community outreach plans and strategies address?
The intent of community outreach is to involve the public in a decision-making process. People are often sensitive to the...
HIP Tool: Density Bonuses
Background
What issues do density bonuses address?
Density bonuses provide incentives for specific development types that achieve an agreed upon community vision. This tool can help encourage lower...
HIP Tool: Multifamily Tax Exemption
Background
What issues does a multifamily tax exemption (MFTE) address?
This tool encourages multifamily development and redevelopment in compact mixed-use districts (urban centers) where housing...
HIP Tool: Parking Reductions
Background
What issues do parking requirement reductions address?
Parking requirement reductions contribute to housing affordability and encourage the use of alternative transportation modes....
HIP Tool: Small Lot Development
Background
What issues does small lot development address?
Small lots have great potential to encourage density and housing diversity in jurisdictions and neighborhoods dominated by single-family...
HIP Tool: Transit Oriented Development Overlays
Background
What issues do TOD overlays address?
Overlays permit the residential forms and density, mix of uses and access to transit and amenities required for compact, mixed-use development...
HIP Tool: Commercial Linkage Fees
Background
Commercial linkage fees build upon the relationship between commercial and residential development. They hinge on balancing the impact of growth in non-residential development by...
HIP Tool: Affordability Covenants
Background
Deed- or title-based price controls use income-based restrictions and other qualifications (e.g., household size, employment status) to preserve affordable housing. In owner-occupied...
