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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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Hoa Oct 31 2024 at 3:34PM on page 26

Question
Is this sentence missing words? "other publications that provide" what exactly?
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Hoa Oct 31 2024 at 1:00PM on page 22

Suggestion
Consider changing these Commercial spaces to Mixed use with both residential and commercial activity. Adding residential space makes better use of vertical space, increases housing stock, and builds in a customer base for the commercial spaces. This location could be well suited for residents with low car needs, especially if bike lanes are added to connect the space to the nearby school, YMCA, and transit options. A small parking structure could also be added to provide resident parking. Consider allowing family friendly mixed use building near the Nature Oriented Plaza.
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Hoa Oct 31 2024 at 12:23PM on page 21

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Please label the main streets
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Hoa Oct 31 2024 at 11:00AM on page 1

Table LU-3 maps the land use designation (e.g., R1/R2) to the set zoning (e.g., SR-3/SR-6)
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Patrick Oct 24 2024 at 6:57PM on page 1

Previous page is titled "Kent Tomorrow" so I assume this is the vision.
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NME Oct 23 2024 at 7:18PM on page 18

Concern
I strongly recommend this category is renamed and re-evaluated. There are mitigation sites in this area and another coming online. Several government entities are interested in preserving this area as the streams are known to have juvenile salmonoids that go into the Green River. Furthermore, this current designation seems to be in conflict with the goals of the 2021 Salmon Habitat Update and WRIA-9 Goals. It would be in the City's interest to prevent future development of these properties.
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Daniel Oct 23 2024 at 12:15PM on page 33

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Making biking a safe and convenient option for Kent residents would have a huge impact on this. The average car payment in the US is over $500/month for used cars, over $700/month for new cars.
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The total cost of owning a new compact car is around $650/month:
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Insurance and repair costs are increasing rapidly as well.
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Daniel Oct 23 2024 at 12:04PM on page 28

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This is great! Lower speed limits, narrowing streets, nixing mandatory parking requirements and adding or upgrading the bike "network" with bike lanes and protected bike lanes to allow walking and biking to be convenient and safe options to move around the city would really help here.
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Daniel Oct 23 2024 at 11:59AM on page 25

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lowering speed limits across the board (default 20 mph, arterials at 25mph) would help make walking, rolling, and biking a safer option. People are much less likely to be killed by car drivers when they are struck at 20 mph as opposed to the higher speeds we have now. Additionally, with the average car/light truck weight being much higher than it used to be and continuing to increase, speed limits need to be lowered even to maintain, not even improve, the odds of surviving being struck by a driver in a car (if you keep speeds equal, adding mass to the car increases the force of the crash).
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Daniel Oct 23 2024 at 11:53AM on page 25

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zoning codes should be simplified and permitting streamlined more if possible to help stuff get built
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Daniel Oct 23 2024 at 10:52AM on page 25

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If you lower the default speed limit to 20 mph, you probably don't need as many bike lanes, especially downtown.
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Daniel Oct 23 2024 at 10:38AM on page 26

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This is a terrible idea: don't force contractors to build parking spaces that buildings don't need.
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Daniel Oct 23 2024 at 10:37AM on page 26

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Kent should allow "the market" to figure out how much parking is required. Mandatory parking requirements artificially limit the kinds of projects that can be built and drive up the cost of construction.
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Daniel Oct 23 2024 at 10:33AM on page 25

Suggestion
I think we can do better for bicycle lanes than simply linking neighborhoods. Kent should strive to be a city where a bike can replace a private car for movement in and around the city. This will decrease traffic, pollution, and injuries, increase mobility for younger people and low-income people, and facilitate healthier lifestyles and financial stability for individuals.
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Daniel Oct 23 2024 at 9:56AM on page 16

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I'm cautiously optimistic about "neighborhood commercial uses". What does that entail?
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Daniel Oct 23 2024 at 9:54AM on page 14

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To be clear, this isn't in effect now, right? R1 and R2 aren't listed in here: link

It's all SR-4.5, SR-6, SR-8, etc.
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