At their October 28 regular meeting, the Spokane City Council adopted Resolution 2024-0099 to initiate the Comprehensive Plan periodic update planning efforts. A Public Participation Plan is included to provide high level guidance and engagement principles.
Community members can weigh in on Spokane’s periodic update efforts and long-term vision through Engage Spokane, an online community space to offer input and help shape the future of our thriving city.
The City of Spokane is commencing a periodic update to the City’s Comprehensive Plan as required by the Growth Management Act (GMA). A “periodic update” is the state’s term for a full review of a Comprehensive Plan to make sure it’s in conformance with any legislative changes to state law. The last periodic update was completed in 2017. Since the last periodic update, state law has added additional considerations especially around Climate Planning and Planning for Housing for all income levels that need to be added to the City’s plan.
Due in June 2026, the periodic update will identify policies and future regulations to guide the next 20 years of our city. View the current Comprehensive Plan.
The periodic update will include robust community outreach and engagement around climate, housing, economic development, land use, transportation and much more.
As part of this periodic update, the City of Spokane is working on integrating climate and resiliency planning into the Comprehensive Plan, as directed by HB 1181 and with funding from Washington’s Climate Commitment Act. Since this is a new topic to the comprehensive plan, engagement work has already started around climate. Learn more about the Climate Planning effort.
Do you have a question about the project? Want to ask for more details or have a suggestion for possible solutions? Contact the project team at PlanSpokane@spokanecity.org or 509.625.6500, or engage with this project on Engage Spokane.
As the project moves through engagement and development in 2024, 2025 and 2026, updates will be issued through the PlanSpokane newsletter to those on our contact list. Sign up for email updates to stay up to date on the latest developments and engagement opportunities for our planning efforts.
City Council Periodic Update Introduction – October 24, 2024
Plan Commission Periodic Update Introduction – September 25, 2024
The Washington Growth Management Act (GMA), first adopted in 1990 as a series of statutes developed to address ways to accommodate growth, requires the fastest-growing cities and counties to complete comprehensive plans and development regulations to guide future growth. Under the GMA, every county and city in the state is required to conduct a thorough periodic update of its comprehensive plan to bring it up to date with any relevant changes in the GMA, recent case law, and to respond to changes in land use and population growth.
Spokane’s next periodic update is due in 2026.
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City of Spokane
Department of Planning Services
809 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.
Spokane, WA 99201
509.625.6500
PlanSpokane@spokanecity.org
Tirrell Black
Assistant Planning Director
tblack@spokanecity.org
Maren Murphy
Senior Planner, Climate Element
mmurphy@spokanecity.org
