Thursday, October 1, 2026
The City of Lacey has entered the final phase of its 2025 Comprehensive Plan update and is asking residents if the city got it "right," as it opens public comment on the draft plan that plots a 20-year roadmap for growth, development and investment through 2045.
The draft plan is available now with public comments being accepted through Thursday, July 31, according to a notice from the Community and Economic Development Department.
In a statement issued Tuesday, July 15, the city described the 2025 Comprehensive Plan as a “roadmap for land use, compact development, housing diversity, economic vitality, and climate resilience.”
The city said the document was shaped by community input collected throughout 2024 and 2025, and fulfills legal obligations under the state of Washington’s Growth Management Act, as well as recent legislative mandates.
According to the department, the plan’s updated goals and policies respond to local needs related to housing supply, transportation infrastructure, land use management and climate planning.
The city also identified four core goals of the draft: “promoting compact, walkable neighborhoods,” “expanding diverse and affordable housing,” “advancing multimodal transportation options” and “protecting natural resources.”
To implement the mentioned goals, the plan introduces updated land use classifications, a revised future land use map and coordinated annexation strategies.
The tools, according to the department, are designed to secure “infrastructure alignment and growth readiness,” as Lacey plans to pursue strategic population and economic growth.
For residents wishing to participate in the final review, the city has directed the public to the official project website. A step-by-step video posted on the site instructs how to locate each policy area and submit public comments.
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Southsoundguy
Central planning doesn’t work.
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pbaron1902
Southsoundguy - Neither does a pointless criticism. Ideas from you?
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jimLacey
One of the goals of pretty much every city seems to be similar to the mentioned overall "pursue strategic population and economic growth".
Population grows in a city in a way that is actually beneficial to the city and residents mainly in one way. That is when there is business growing there, with limited interference from the city. But pursuing population growth (via tax incentives or annexation) solely with the goal of increasing the city's budget is never a benefit to existing residents, just the opposite. But that point of view is never acknowledged in these plans.
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Southsoundguy
My criticism isn't pointless, and I have put forth ideas in other posts. Mainly, abolish zoning and adopt a pattern-based growth management system, and adopt bitcoin as the reserve asset for the cities so they don't need to pursue ponzi-like growth to sustain failing infrastructure. Mr. Lacey sees the problem--the city has to force growth to cover the cost of infrastructure it can't organically sustain.
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