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Aug. 3, 2022 - Planning for 240,000+ more residents
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How Seattle is planning for a quarter million more residents.
The Comprehensive Plan will shape the next 20 years of growth in the city. Here's what you need to know.
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Aug. 3, 2022 - Planning for 240,000+ more residents
8/3/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
The Comprehensive Plan will shape the next 20 years of growth in the city. Here's what you need to know.
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Seattle officials project the city's population will hit 1 million people within 22 years.
That's an additional 240,000 or so residents.
Where will they live?
What kind of homes will be built for them?
And how will new growth meet existing racial and economic inequities?
These questions are guiding a mandated update of Seattle's comprehensive plan, which sets parameters for growth over the next 20 plus years.
The final plan doesn't set budgets for housing or transportation or infrastructure, but agencies that do must follow the plan.
Seattle's Office of Planning and Community Development wants to know, What do you think?
Will we build tall apartment buildings with ground floor businesses everywhere in the city?
Will we change nothing and hope for the best?
The city now has five broad concepts on the table.
I'm Jay Martin Jr. Find out more about Seattle's comprehensive plan on Crosscut.com.
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