Harbor Square Master Plan Comprehensive Plan Amendment

For information on the Port of Edmonds application to the City of Edmonds to incorporate the Harbor Square Master Plan into the City of Edmonds' Comprehensive Plan please see this page.

Comprehensive Plan

Many of the city's long-range planning activities fall under the Growth Management Act (GMA) and are encompassed in the City's main Comprehensive Plan document (5.2 MB) which contains the following plan elements:

• Community Sustainability
• Land Use
• Community Culture and Urban Design
• Utilities
• Capital Facilities
• Housing

The plan also includes a number of specific functional plans — contained in separate documents — such as:

• Transportation Plan (8 MB)
• Parks, Recreation & Open Space Plan (4 MB)
• Community Cultural Plan (676 KB)
• Street Tree Plan (2.4 MB)
• Sanitary Sewer Comprehensive Plan (2.6 MB)
• Storm & Surface Water Plan (5.3 MB), with Appendices (4.8MB)
• Water Plan (5.5 MB), with Appendices A-F (9 MB) and G-M (3.9 MB)
• Economic Development Plan (886 KB)
• Shoreline Master Program

For land use designations and patterns, you should also consult the Comprehensive Plan Map (1.7 MB). You may also want to explore other maps and studies that are available for reference.

Five Corners / Westgate Commercial Centers

The City of Edmonds has been working with a team of faculty and students from the University of Washington's Green Futures Lab — with assistance from the Cascade Land Conservancy — to create plans for expanding the role of neighborhood centers to serve as more active and vital parts of the community. The first two neighborhood commercial areas to be addressed are Westgate and Five Corners. The project will develop concepts that exemplify sustainable approaches for redevelopment in suburban cities and preparation of a Special District Plan for each of the two neighborhood commercial areas. View information on this project here.

4th Avenue Cultural Corridor

Linking key activity centers within downtown Edmonds is an important priority for the city. The city adopted a new master plan for the 4th Avenue corridor linking the Edmonds Center for the Arts with the downtown retail core in 2006, and followed that up with a design implementation and funding plan for the renamed "4th Avenue Cultural Corridor" in 2009. View information on this project here.

Highway 99 Enhancement

Beginning in 2004 with an enhancement study (3.2MB ) and market analysis (3.9MB ), the city has been working to identify and promote differentiation and identity along Highway 99. More recent projects have focused on updating codes to streamline permitting and simplify regulatory processes as well as installing artistic/identity elements. View more information on this project here.

Click on the logo (above) to view information on the Shoreline Master Program Update.

Puget Sound Regional Council

The City of Edmonds is located within Snohomish County, and is a member organization of the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC). PSRC performs regional transportation, growth management, and economic development planning including:

• Vision 2040
• Transportation 2040
• Prosperity Partnership

Snohomish County Tomorrow

Within Snohomish County, the city participates in Snohomish County Tomorrow, a collaborative inter-jurisdictional forum consisting of representatives from the county, each of the cities, and the Tulalip Tribes.

SCT's mission is to adopt a publicly shared vision, including goals and policies, to guide effective growth management and to preserve Snohomish County's unique quality of life. SCT 's primary function is to oversee the Countywide Planning Policies (CPPs) which are written policies used to establish a countywide framework from which the county and city's comprehensive plans are developed.