PSRC is seeking public input on the scope for the VISION 2050 plan and State Environmental Policy Act environmental analysis. The public comment period will run from Friday, February 2, 2018, through Monday, March 19, 2018 at 5 pm. The scoping notice is available online. An ADA reader-accessible version of the scoping notice is available here.

The region is preparing for growth in the coming decades — about 1.8 million more people and 1.2 million more jobs by 2050. VISION 2050 will build on the region’s existing plan to keep the central Puget Sound region healthy and vibrant as it grows and will consider updated information and perspectives about a changing region. The plan will identify the challenges the region should tackle together and renew the vision for the next 30 years.

VISION helps to coordinate the local growth and transportation plans developed by cities and counties to make sure they are consistent with the Growth Management Act and regional transportation plans. It is an integrated, long-range vision for the future that lays out a strategy for maintaining a healthy region - promoting the well-being of people and communities, economic vitality, and a healthy environment.

PSRC is seeking community input to shape the plan. What important regional issues should be the focus of the update? How should the region’s growth strategy be updated to plan for 2050? What impacts and actions should be evaluated through environmental review?

In addition to seeking written comments, PSRC will hold listening sessions in King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties to hear more input on the plan update from jurisdictions, agencies, and the community:

February 13, 3-5 pm at the Union Station Ruth Fisher Board Room, 401 South Jackson Street, Seattle

February 20, 3-5 pm at the Fife Community Center, 2111 54th Avenue East, Fife

February 22, 3-5 pm at Lynnwood City Hall, 19100 44th Avenue West, Lynnwood

February 27, 3-5 pm at the Norm Dicks Government Center, 345 6th Street, Bremerton

PSRC’s Growth Management Policy Board will review comments submitted and is expected to adopt a project scope in spring 2018.

More information is available on the project website: https://www.psrc.org/vision

How to Comment:

SEPA Responsible Official: Erika Harris, AICP, Senior Planner

E-mail: VISION2050@psrc.org

U.S. Mail: ATTN: VISION 2050 Comment, 1011 Western Avenue, Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98104

In Person: VISION 2050 Listening Session (more information) and March 1, 2018 at PSRC’s Growth Management Policy Board meeting, 10 am

Fax: ATTN: VISION 2050 Comment, 206-587-4825