Comprehensive Plan Update Project
Next Action: The draft Housing chapter is available for review.
4 Things You Can Do Now
- Submit a comment using a short survey.
- Request a presentation for your group or contact staff:
- Maya.Teeple@co.thurston.wa.us
(360) 545-2593
- Maya.Teeple@co.thurston.wa.us
- View the 2023 survey results.
- Sign up to receive project emails.
Project Name: Thurston 2045
Thurston County is updating its comprehensive plan. The 20-year growth plan and policy document for unincorporated Thurston County guides:
- Future land use.
- Housing.
- Economic development.
- Population and employment growth.
- Natural resource protection.
- Capital facilities.
Comprehensive Plan Chapter Update Overviews
Click the icons below to open a story map and learn more about each chapter of the Comprehensive Plan Update.
Chapters Ready for Review
Draft chapters are available for review. View the draft chapter release schedule.
Provide feedback using the Thurston 2045 survey link. You can also download the Tracked Changes Word Document to provide detailed feedback and upload it with your survey response.
A full draft chapter will be issued at a later date.
- Clean PDF: Housing *Note: This chapter has been completely repealed and replaced so there is no tracked changes Word document available.
- Draft goals, objectives, and policies.
- Draft 2024 Housing Allocations.
- Clean PDF: Environment, Recreation, and Open Space
- Tracked Changes Word Document: Environment, Recreation, and Open Space
- Draft Green Open Space Corridors Map
- The Open and Green Space Corridors map identifies areas where public lands, forests, parks, bases, and certain environmental areas exist in the county to create a visual of existing corridors as well as areas that are currently disconnected.
- Map E1 - Water Resource Inventory Areas
- Map E2 - Public Purpose Lands
- Map E3 - Open Space Tax Land
- Draft Climate Goals and Policies August 21 PC Memo
- PDF: Draft Climate *Note: This chapter is new to the Comprehensive Plan so there is no tracked changes Word document available.
Appendix A: Thurston County History
Appendix B: Implementation Plan (NEW)
Appendix C: Descriptions of Related Plans, Studies, and Regulations
Appendix D: List of Plan Amendments
Project Information
- Late 2022-Early 2023
Decide the scope and what to include in the update. - March 2023-March 2024
Initial outreach to the community, draft updates, and internal review. - March-December 2024
Thurston County community and Planning Commission review. - January-December 2025
Thurston County community and Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) review. - December 2025
BoCC will make a final decision.
2024
| Date & Time | Location | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Oct. 25, 9:30 am | Realtors Association, Zoom | Climate, Housing, Development Codes |
| Nov. 6, 12:00 pm | Rochester School District 401 (10140 Highway 12 SW, Rochester, WA 98579) | Rochester Chamber - Housing, Development Codes |
Get Involved
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- Email the project manager, Maya Teeple, Senior Planner.
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