Comprehensive Plan Resources

Find information on Comprehensive Plan Periodic Updates across SSHA³P member governments, including draft plans, timelines for public engagement, and how to get involved.

• City of Auburn
• City of Edgewood
• City of Fife
• City of Fircrest
• City of Gig Harbor
• City of Lakewood
• City of Milton
• Pierce County
• City of Puyallup
• Puyallup Tribe of Indians (Adopted)
• City of Sumner
• City of Tacoma
• Town of Steilacoom
• City of University Place

General Comprehensive Plan

• GMA Periodic Update
• Periodic Update Checklist for Fully Planning Cities
• GMA Amendments 1995-2002

Housing Element Guidance

• Updating GMA Housing Elements
• Guidance for Updating Your Housing Element
• Planning for Housing

	Webinar	Webinar Slides	Final Guidance
Final Guidance Book 1: Establishing Housing Targets for your Community – including final projected housing needs and allocation guidance	Guidance and Data for Updating Housing Elements #1 Webinar	Presentation slides	Establishing Housing Targets Final Guidance
Final Guidance Book 2: Guidance for Updating your Housing Element – including final land capacity and adequate provisions guidance	Guidance and Data for Updating Housing Elements #2 Webinar	Presentation slides	Guidance for Updating your Housing Element – Including Guidance on Land Capacity Analysis and Making Adequate Provisions Appendix B – Adequate Provisions Checklists
Final Guidance Book 3: Guidance for Addressing Racially Disparate Impacts	Updating your Housing Element: Racially Disparate Impacts Training	Presentation slides	Racially Disparate Impacts Final Guidance

2023 State Housing Legislation

• Housing Laws of 2019 – 2023
• Draft Model Ordinances, User Guide, and Comment Form
• Fact Sheet for Implementing HB 1110 (July 2023)
• GMA Housing Rulemaking EZ View
• Sign Up Form for Housing Rulemaking Updates

Middle Housing & ADUs

• Planning for Middle Housing – Includes the following:
  • Information on HB 1110 Middle Housing Model Ordinances
  • ADU Guidance and resources
  • Middle Housing communication materials
  • Middle Housing pro forma tool for the Puget Sound Region
  • Objective Design Standards Toolkit

Racially Disparate Impacts

• Racially Disparate Impacts Data Toolkit
• Draft Displacement Risk Map
  • Memo with more details about the map
• Talking Race for Planners Webinar
  • Presentation slides

Communication About Housing

• Communication Tools on Housing Topics (scroll to the bottom of the page)
  • Videos, PowerPoints, and fact sheets in English, Spanish, and Chinese
• Middle Housing Information (scroll to bottom of the page)
• Middle housing educational posters

• VISION 2050
• Regional Housing Strategy (Feb 2022)
• Housing Element Guide (Feb 2023)
• Passport to 2044: Housing (Session 1) – Racially Disparate Impacts Webinar
• Passport to 2044: Housing (Session 2) – Housing Need and Capacity Webinar
• Passport to 2044: Legislative Session Wrap-Up & Comprehensive Planning
• Findings from Affordable Housing Developer Outreach
• Regional Centers Profiles

• PCRC Website
• Countywide Planning Policies
• Housing Targets (Adopted by Pierce County Council on 6/20)

	SOURCE	LINK		NOTES
Data – General	CDC/ATSDR	Social Vulnerability Index		Created to help identify communities that need support during disasters. Index ranks tracts on 16 factors including poverty and crowded housing
	OFM	Washington Data and Research		Data on community demographics, housing, economy, etc.
	Policy Map	PolicyMap		Provides easy access to data from Census and other data sources
	PSRC	PSRC Community Profiles
	US Census	OntheMap		Data on workforce, resident work patterns, and commuting
Data – Housing	Eviction Lab	Eviction Lab
	HUD	Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy		Data on housing need
	HUD	Fair Market Rent and Income Limit Data
	Local Housing Solutions	Housing Needs Assessment Tool
	WA State Housing Finance Commission	Income and Rent Limits for All Tax Credit and Bond Financed Properties
	UW	Housing Market Data Toolkit		Includes quarterly rental and home sale price data.
	Zillow	Zillow Research – Housing Data		Includes smoothed measures of rent and home sale prices.
Data – Racial Disparities, Fair Housing	Commerce	Racially Disparate Impacts Data Toolkit
	Commerce	Draft Displacement Risk Map
	DOH	Environmental Health Disparities Map
	HUD	Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Tool		Data on segregation, poverty, housing disparities, location and tenant characteristics of publicly supported housing
	Pierce County Consortium	Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing		Includes survey results by jurisdiction
	PSRC	Displacement Risk Mapping
	PSRC	Opportunity Mapping
	PSRC	Racial Residential Segregation Data
	UW	Mapping Race and Segregation in Tacoma and Pierce County
Policy Toolkits	APA	Equity in Zoning Policy Guide
	Housing Development Consortium	Affordable Housing Toolkit
	PSRC	Housing Innovations Program
	PSRC	Housing Opportunities by Place
	PSRC	Increase Neighborhood Stability by Mitigating Residential Displacement