2025 Comprehensive Plan Periodic Review

THANK YOU to everyone who joined us on the People, Planet, and Prosperity Tour! 
Click Here for the Tour Booklet on PT2045planning.org

Next up: Join us for a virtual scenarios workshop on October 23, 2024.
City planning staff and consultants invite you to a virtual workshop on October 23, at 5:00pm. Our team has learned a lot from you at our in-person events this year. Join us online to see how public feedback is shaping ways we could use land and direct policy. We want your perspective on community goals, how we can use land in Port Townsend, and your priorities as we chart a course for the next 20 years in our city. You can register online at www.pt2045planning.org. We hope to see you there!

PAST ENGAGEMENT EVENTS

• A Vision Workshop and Kick-off Event was held at the American Legion and Cotton Building, May 6, 2024.
   
• City Council, Planning Commissioners, and City Staff participated in the T-Lab Moving in the Right Direction Conference, on April 19, 2024. 
   
• City Council, Planning Commissioners, and City Staff tabled three farmer's market Saturdays this year to gather community input from market shoppers. 
   
• City Staff tabled the Jefferson County Connectivity Fair in Chimacum, WA, on April 20, 2024.
   
• Pop-Up Engagement events have been held at the Mountain View Commons Food Bank, The Nest, a youth-centered coffee shop, and the Port of Port Townsend's Boat Haven for Marine Trades conversations.  
   
• On September 18, 2024, A People, Planet, and Prosperity Tour was held along the streetscape of three housing developments in Port Townsend with a quorum of Council and Planning Commission present. 
   
• Planning Studios were held July 22 to 24, 2024 at the Cotton Building on long-term goals for Port Townsend, and how we want to reach the future.

Monday, July 22nd: PT 2045 Gala 4 - 8pm.

Gather alongside local officials, board members, and staff to open the studio.

• 3-4PM: City Council engages in the Studio
• 4-5PM: Studio Soft Open to Public
• 5-8PM: PT 2045 Gala

Tuesday, July 23rd: Vision Drafting 9am - 8pm.

Review the current vision and collaboratively suggest improvements or revisions with consultants, city staff, and other members of the public.

• 9AM-6PM: Studio Hours
• 6-8PM: Vision Workshop
• 6PM: Presentation
• 6:20-8PM: Activities

Wednesday, July 24th: Scenarios Workshop 9am - 8 pm.

Explore options to achieve the vision proposed at the workshop and identify a potential ‘preferred scenario’.

• 9AM-6PM: Studio Hours
• 6-8PM: Scenarios Workshop
• 6PM: Presentation
• 6:20-8PM: Activities

Learn about the 2025 Comprehensive Plan on our project website.  Find out where we are in the process and how you can help shape the future of Port Townsend for the next 20 years.  Questions? Please contact Long Range Planner Adrian Smith at asmith@cityofpt.us.

What is a Comprehensive Plan?

Port Townsend uses a Comprehensive Plan, called a "Comp Plan" for short, to chart how we want the city to grow over the next 20 years. The Comp Plan goes under "Periodic Review" every 10 years and sets big goals and policies, like our land use zones. Development regulations, like height limits, and active plans, like the Urban Forestry Plan, are used to implement the goals and policies in the Comp Plan.

A Comp Plan’s parts are called “elements” and can include:

What is a Periodic Review?

Washington State’s Growth Management Act (GMA) requires us to thoroughly review our Comp Plan every 10 years. Our review is anticipated to be complete in December 2025. The periodic review is an opportunity for us to collectively look at the big picture, see connectivity, and share ideas. It is when we actively compare our current plans and policies with new legislation, ensuring our community is up-to-date, and when we work closely with our community to ensure we all have a voice in planning the future of Port Townsend. The last time we updated the Comp Plan was in 2016. Dive into the 2016 Comp Plan.

How can you get involved?

Share your vision for 2045! Over the course of two years, the City will hold a variety of events so that Port Townsend’s diverse residents and workers with diverse perspectives have equal access to providing input to the Comp Plan.  Opportunities will include interviews, workshops, Planning Commission and City Council meetings, online outreach, and youth engagement through schools. Visit our project website pt2045planning.org/getinvolved for a schedule of events. 

How is the Comprehensive Plan Periodic Review funded? 

Port Townsend has been awarded over $725,000 in state grants for City long range planning. These funds will be used for the 2025 Comprehensive Plan, Active Transportation Plan, Climate Action Plan, Shoreline Master Program, and our first Urban Forestry Plan. The City will engage the community in working on these plans through 2024 and 2025.

The 2025 Comprehensive Plan Periodic Review is being conducted in partnership with: