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Urban Center Development
In September, 2005 the Growth Management Planning Council (GMPC) approved the Interjurisdictional Team (IJT) staff proposal to analyze the progress of the King County Countywide Planning Policies’ Urban Center Strategy, which stresses a combination of job and housing development in King County’s Urban Centers. The study’s goals were twofold: to identify the factors that have led to the existing pattern of development among the county’s Urban Centers and also to provide a set of tools that local governments can employ to encourage more development in their Centers.

This effort culminated in Job and Housing Growth in King County’s Urban Centers: Factors, Strategies and Tools Influencing Development and Appendices, an Executive Summary prepared by the Benchmark Program and distributed to members of the GMPC. This study was supported by the research and analysis of two University of Washington students at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs:

These papers share Appendices and Bibliography (5.54Mb PDF)

Updated: April 25, 2008

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