Regional Growth Strategy

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Regional Growth Strategy Technical Amendment
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Overview

• Discussion/Future Action Item
• The Executive Board will be asked to take action
  in May to adopt a Technical Amendment to the
  VISION 2040 Regional Growth Strategy
• RGS Technical Amendment
• What is the purpose of the Technical Amendment?
• What does the Technical Amendment do?
• What is included in the Technical Amendment
  package?
• Next steps

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VISION 2040 Regional Growth Strategy
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Purpose of Amendment

• Executive Board authority
• The Regional Council recognizes that as cities
  continue to grow, both through net increase and
  through annexation of unincorporated areas, their
  population and employment levels may change
  significantly. To reflect these changes, it is
  anticipated that the Regional Councils Executive
  Board will make a technical amendment to the
  Regional Growth Strategy to potentially
  reclassify cities before the regions counties
  undertake the next round of Growth Management Act
  target-setting work. (VISION 2040, p.18)

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Regional Growth StrategyTechnical Amendment

• What is the Technical Amendment?
• Updates the numbers in the Regional Growth
  Strategy to reflect
• Boundary changes due to annexations and UGA
  adjustments
• City reclassifications from Small City to Larger
  City due to annexations and/or real growth

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Regional Growth StrategyTechnical Amendment

• Why is a Technical Amendment necessary?
• Annexations, UGA adjustments and city
  reclassifications change the role of affected
  communities in implementing the RGS
• Provides counties and cities with numbers that
  reflect current boundaries to use in updating
  growth targets

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Regional Growth StrategyTechnical Amendment

• What does the Technical Amendment do?
• It shifts 2000 base year population and
  employment for annexed areas, UGA adjustment
  areas and reclassified cities to the appropriate
  regional geography
• It shifts the proportional 2000-2040 RGS growth
  allocation associated with annexed areas, UGA
  adjustment areas and reclassified cities to the
  appropriate regional geographies

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Regional Growth StrategyTechnical Amendment

• What doesnt the Technical Amendment do?
• It does not change the RGS base year the base
  year remains 2000
• It does not involve policy changes to the
  Regional Growth Strategy that may otherwise
  trigger a SEPA action

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Regional Growth StrategyTechnical Amendment
Regional Growth Strategy for Population, 2000-2040
Adopted April 24, 2008
Technical Amendment Draft January 8, 2009
Reflects 2000 political boundaries
Reflects 2007 political boundaries
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Regional Growth StrategyTechnical Amendment
Population Difference Technical Amendment -
Adopted
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Regional Growth StrategyTechnical Amendment
Regional Growth Strategy for Employment, 2000-2040
Adopted April 24, 2008
Technical Amendment Draft January 8, 2009
Reflects 2000 political boundaries
Reflects 2007 political boundaries
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Regional Growth StrategyTechnical Amendment
Employment Difference Technical Amendment -
Adopted
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Regional Growth StrategyTechnical Amendment

• What is included in the Technical Amendment
  package?
• Appendix I-A Revised RGS charts and tables
• Appendix I-B Supplemental RGS technical tables
• Appendix I-C Revised table of city
  classifications by county by regional geography
• Appendix II-A 2000-2007 population employment
  trends and the Regional Growth Strategy
• Appendix II-B PSRC guidance for aligning local
  growth targets with the Regional Growth
  Strategy
• Items to be adopted by Executive Board action to
  amend VISION 2040
• Supplemental background information

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Next Steps

• Executive Board
• March 26, 2009 Executive Board is briefed on
  the GMPB recommendation for a technical amendment
  to the VISION 2040 Regional Growth Strategy
• May 28, 2009 Executive Board action to adopt
  the technical amendment to the VISION 2040
  Regional Growth Strategy

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Questions?

• Contact Norman Abbott
• Director of Growth Management
• Puget Sound Regional Council (206)
  464-7134
• nabbott_at_psrc.org
• Carol Naito
• Principal Planner-Demographer
• Puget Sound Regional Council (206)
  464-7535
• cnaito_at_psrc.org