West Area Plan feedback summary, DRAFT Plan edit highlights, and additional public meetings announced

City staff are announcing proposed changes to the DRAFT West Area Plan and additional public meetings.

As with other City plans, the West Area Plan is a long-term plan. It will guide changes that occur over decades. The Plan focuses on guiding changes to the physical aspects of our community and is structured around the Comprehensive Plan's seven elements.

The West Area Plan's recommendations are guided by adopted City policies and feedback from the community. City policies include addressing a persistent housing shortage, allowing more people to live in close proximity to transit and businesses, improving connections among neighborhoods and between homes and jobs, and improving access to parks. As with previous planning processes, the West Area Plan process seeks to incorporate robust public input about what people value most.

A summary of feedback received during Phase 3 of the process is posted here. Phase 3 started in August 2023 and includes continuing community review of the Public Review DRAFT of the West Area Plan. Hundreds of stakeholders, with a variety of perspectives, provided hundreds of comments at public meetings and events, via email, and directly in the Public Review DRAFT document. The summary categorizes comments by topic, includes the approximate number of comments on similar topics, and includes specific stakeholder comments. Feedback summaries are also available for Phase 1 and Phase 2.