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Kent Comprehensive Plan

The City of Kent has spent the last two years actively working with the community through workshops, pop-up events, surveys, and other outreach to get your thoughts and priorities for the future of Kent. Your concerns, ideas, and recommendations have been used to shape this plan. As we move closer to the required adoption date at the end of the year, we need your help again. This time we need your feedback on the draft plan, the goals, and policies that is the roadmap for our decision makers for the next 20 years.

Profile and Vision
Land Use
Housing
Transportation
Parks and Recreation
Economic Development
Capital Facilities
Utilities
Shoreline
Climate

Kent Comp Plan Public Review

We want to hear your thoughts on our Draft Comprehensive Plan!

What is a Comprehensive Plan?

A Comprehensive Plan is a long-term policy document that guides how the city will grow and develop, covering key areas like land use, housing, transportation, parks, transportation and economic development. This plan sets a vision for the next 20 years, ensuring that Kent evolves in a way that reflects the needs and values of its residents and visitors alike.

By providing comments on the Draft Plan, you have the opportunity to share your feedback on the elements that make up the plan before they are finalized and adopted.


The comment period is open until November 12, 2024. In addition, the City will hold two public hearings in November where you can provide verbal comments in person or virtually via Zoom. Visit the project website at Engage.KentWA.gov/FutureKent to learn more.


How to Provide Comments on the Draft Plan: To navigate the different chapters of Kent's Comprehensive Plan, use the drop down feature located above the green bar at the top of the document. This feature will allow you to move between the 10 different chapters. You can review each chapter individually by clicking through at your own pace. As you read, feel free to provide your comments and feedback directly within the document. Please be advised that any comments you submit will be publicly visible.

Chapter Overview:

  • Introduction, Community Profile, Vision
  • Land Use Element
  • Housing Element
  • Transportation Element
  • Parks and Recreation Element
  • Economic Development Element
  • Capital Facilities Element
  • Utilities Element
  • Shoreline Element
  • Climate Element
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Chrissy Nov 16 2024 at 1:12AM on page 20

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Thank you to all of the Kent staff who created this document--and enabled us citizens to be a part of the planning process!
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Dan Streiffert Nov 9 2024 at 5:25PM on page 14

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I think what is missing in this plan is any discussion about the economics of Clean Energy. Most people believe adapting to climate change will be very expensive and beyond the cost of the average household. This makes them reluctant to act in their own best interests.

In 2014, Tony Seba wrote a book titled “The Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030”
You can go to his website – TonySeba.com, to get more information on this, including videos that he updates regularly. Most of his predictions have been coming true. For example, he predicted that EVs would be cost competitive with gas cars by 2025.

In 2011, Amory Lovins, from the Rocky Mountain Institute, (RMI.org} wrote “Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era”, where shows how business-motivated by profit, supported by civil society, sped by smart policy-can get the US completely off oil and coal by 2050, and later beyond natural gas as well.

Both authors provide numerous examples on how moving to a clean energy strategy can be profitable. The transition can also harden our infrastructure. For example, the new Tesla Cybertruck has a Vehicle to Grid connection, that allows you to power your home or another EV with the battery. This functionality will soon be available in more EVs, allowing for significant battery backup during brownouts.

By pointing our local businesses and citizens toward these kinds of resources, we can accelerate the change to clean energy with significant costs savings.
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Hoa Oct 30 2024 at 6:57PM on page 6

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Who/what roles within the City of Kent is a part of the climate leadership team that will push climate goals and policies forward? Is there at least 1 dedicated resource?
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Hoa Oct 30 2024 at 6:51PM on page 11

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What are the city's carbon emission reduction targets, set by state/federal regulations or by ourselves? We should have some stated stakes in the ground that are transparent, tracked against, and provide an attainable trajectory for 2030, 2035, 2040, 2050 reduction targets.
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Hoa Oct 29 2024 at 2:59PM on page 15

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GHG inventory is an important step and should not only consider the largest sources of emissions currently, but the trajectory of future emissions. If Buildings are estimated to contribute the most emissions, more effort/capital should be going towards pushing greener building / retrofits (e.g., regulation to restrict/limit new residential/commercial buildings powered by natural gas, provide information/lists of retrofit specialists to the community, partner with PSE to offer free LED bulbs (trade in incandescents) at community events).
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Hoa Oct 29 2024 at 2:29PM on page 18

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Ways to reduce cost may be to standardize necessary forms, allow online submissions, and pre-zoning areas (e.g., solar ready neighborhoods, retrofit ready, etc.)
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Hoa Oct 29 2024 at 2:21PM on page 18

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To support this, the city should eliminate/waive unnecessary soft costs related to green building/retrofits. E.g., the requirements for solar PV is quite onerous compared to other locales. The need for a permitting process, environmental studies, etc. must be balanced so that climate investments are attractive, timely, and not prohibitively costly.
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