The Metropolitan King County Council met last week to discuss and vote on the County’s Comprehensive Plan major update, a process that occurs once every four years. In a brief three weeks ago, we outlined a variety of land use and zoning changes proposed at the committee review level. The package of amendments proposed at that time were approved at committee hearing two weeks ago, but further changes were proposed at last week’s full County Council meeting. The proposed amendments to the approved Comprehensive Plan are summarized below, but of interest to most urbanists are land use changes. The Metropolitan King County Council voted on two primary amendments related to that topic, but by and large the approved Comprehensive Plan contracts King County’s Urban Growth Area–though there are minor changes related to very small notch expansions–and increases infill development capacity within pre-existing Urban Growth Areas.
King County Looks Toward Land Use Changes
