The Planning and Economic Development Committee considers matters related to land use, development regulation issues, economic development issues, and code compliance issues. These include the following topics; comprehensive planning (if referred by Planning Commission), development regulations/zoning codes (if referred by Planning Commission), economic development issues, code compliance issues, and quarterly code compliance statistics.

The Planning and Economic Development Committee meets at 4:00 PM on the fourth Thursday of every month.

*Please note: A quorum of the City Council may be present.

Virtual Meeting: Due to the current COVID-19 public health emergency, and social distancing protocols, pursuant to the Governor’s and public health officials’ orders, this meeting will be conducted virtually. The public may call in to the conference line to listen to the meeting. The number is 206.973.4555. While you will be able to hear the meeting; you will not be able to participate in the meeting through this phone number. Please note that if you are unable to mute your phone, everyone else on the call-in line will be able to hear you, so please refrain from speaking.  No one will be able to physically attend this meeting.

Public Comment Process: In an effort to adhere to the social distancing protocols, pursuant to the Governor’s and public health officials’ orders, and in order to keep our residents, Council and staff healthy, the Commission will not hear any in-person public comments during this COVID-19 public health emergency.  The Commission is providing remote and written public comment opportunities. All comments shall be respectful in tone and content. Signing-up for remote comments or providing written comments must be done by 3:30pm the day of the meeting.

• Instructions for providing remote oral public comments are located at the following link:  Council Committee and Citizen Advisory Committee Virtual Meetings.
• If you wish to submit written public comment, including written testimony for a public hearing, email/text public comments to pedpubliccomment@seatacwa.gov. The comment will be mentioned by name and subject and then placed in the committee handout packet posted to the website. Written testimony for the public hearing will be read verbatim into the record, up to five minutes each. Public comments and testimony submitted to an email address other than the provided address, or after the deadline, will not be included as part of the record.

SPECIAL Planning & Economic Development and Planning Commission Meeting on January 19, 2021 at 5:30pm. This is a Special meeting following the briefing on the Housing Action Plan in November 2020. The PED Committee has requested additional time to review the draft Housing Needs Analysis data. This meeting replaces the regularly scheduled Planning Commission meeting.  The Planning Commission is invited to and should attend this meeting of the PED to learn more about the draft Housing Needs Assessment.  A separate Planning Commission meeting on this topic is not scheduled.

Packet: 20210119_Packet_pdf

Handout: 20210119_PublicComment