Engagement

Using Feedback to Inform the Draft Plan

Throughout the One Seattle Plan engagement process, we engaged with community members who shared their vision of how the One Seattle Plan shapes investments in our city. This feedback was used to develop, refine, and inform the Plan's goals and policies.

Information on our current Zoning Update efforts are at Zoning.OneSeattlePlan.com.

Engagement Reports

Public Engagement Summary (March 2024) 
This report was released concurrently with the Draft One Seattle Plan in March 2024, summarizing the key engagement strategies that were used to engage community around the development of the Draft One Seattle Plan. The report highlights the engagement partnerships with community-based organizations, Community Liaisons, groups and individuals that were instrumental in identifying community needs, particularly among groups that have been historically excluded from the City’s engagement and planning processes.

CBO Reports & Recommendations (Spring 2023) 
A key aspect of our community involvement process were engagement partnerships with seven Black, Indigenous People of color (BIPOC) led and serving Community-Based Organizations (CBOs). Each of these groups designed & implemented engagement that centered the voices and needs of people of color in informing how we will grow and invest in our communities in the coming years. These reports detail their tailored outreach activities and strategies employed in their engagement work. They contain key policy recommendations that provided crucial insights which informed the goals and policies One Seattle Plan.

Click on the link below to expand and read these reports.

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) 
APALA is an organization of Asian American and Pacific Islander workers and allies focused on worker, immigrant, and civil rights. APALA organizes and works in BIPOC communities across the Greater Seattle area. This CBO designed and carried out a tailored surveying process, deployed at union meetings, large public gatherings, and through 1:1 interviews, to learn more about the needs and priorities of the communities it serves.

Click here to read APALA's Report & Recommendations.

Duwamish Valley Sustainability Association (DVSA) 
The Duwamish Valley Sustainability Association (DVSA) engages South Park and Georgetown communities on issues related to quality of life, social justice, health, and education. The goal of their youth-led South Park Youth Vision Project was to understand the South Park community’s needs and challenges, and to create policy strategies for local change. In partnership with Gehl Architects, this group piloted the use of a smartphone app to gather and visualize community-generated engagement data that formed the basis of its recommendations for the Plan.

Click here to read DVSA's Report & Recommendations.

Estelita's Library 
Based in Seattle’s Central District, Estelita’s Library is a social justice library that supplies its community with a space to explore books, literature and conversations focused on social justice, ethnic studies, and liberation movements. The library hosted groups such as Seattle Urban League, North Star Cycling, and Smash the Box to discuss topics of displacement, cultural gathering spaces, and health to provide policy recommendations to inform the Plan.

Click here to read Estelita's Library Report & Recommendations.


Khmer Community of Seattle/King County/Noio Pathways/KIMYUNITY
The Khmer Community of Seattle/King County is a community organization that provides direct services to the local Khmer community of Seattle and South King County. The Khmer Community of Seattle/King County (KCSKC) teamed up with Noio Pathways and KIMYUNITY to create a year-long, immersive civic engagement project to obtain inputs used to inform its policy recommendations for the Plan. This CBO team led groups of Khmer youth and elders on field trips and site visits across Seattle to spark conversations identifying the main issues and engagement themes it put forth in its policy recommendations for the Plan.

Click here to read KCSKC/Noio Pathways/Kimyunity's Report & Recommendations.

Capitol Hill EcoDistrict 
Capitol Hill EcoDistrict works to create a more resilient, equitable, and vibrant community in the most densely populated urban village in Seattle, Capitol Hill. To inform its recommendations for the Plan, this group used surveys, pop-ups, and community space activations that facilitated engagement with a range of community stakeholders, including residents, small businesses, community organizations, City agencies, and major institutions.

Click here to read Capitol Hill EcoDistrict's Report & Recommendations 

Wa Na Wari/CACE 21 
Wa Na Wari seeks to reignite Black cultural life and social connections in Seattle’s Central District, creating space for Black ownership, possibility, and belonging through art, historic preservation, and connection. Its CACE 21 program is a community organizing initiative that seeks to build community power and capacity amongst Black Central District homeowners and Black cultural workers to advocate for land use policies that lower the barriers to creating more cultural spaces based on the Wa Na Wari model. Conversations with CACE 21 participants informed its recommendations for the Plan.

Click here to read Wa Na Wari/CACE 21's Report & Recommendations.

sləp̓iləbəxʷ (Rising Tides) Indigenous Planning Group
Rising Tides is made up of leaders from Indigenous communities in the Coast Salish area and represents cultural knowledge keepers, Tribal nations, community leaders, and Native professionals engaged in city and regional planning efforts. This group seeks to cultivate a city that is culturally, socially, and economically inclusive of Tribal and urban Native people. sləp̓iləbəxʷ’s conversations and interviews with these communities informed its recommendations for the Plan, which seek to increase awareness and understanding of Indigenous cultures and histories of settler colonization as a means to promote Indigenous approaches to planning, community, and cultural placekeeping.

sləp̓iləbəxʷ (Rising Tides) Indigenous Planning Group report coming soon.

Community Meetings

From November 2022 to January 2023 we engaged community members through a series of five in-person community meetings and one virtual meeting.

Phase One Engagement Report
This report summarizes early engagement from the first year of the One Seattle Plan engagement process. It provides a preliminary outreach overview highlighting key themes that we have heard from over 10,000 comments during the first months of engagement. Click here to read the Engagement Report.

Preliminary Engagement Survey
We heard from 2,348 individuals in the first survey for the One Seattle Plan, which was open from June 17 - August 31, 2022. The results of this survey informed how we structured our engagement, meeting people were they are, collaborating with existing events, and utilizing interactive online engagement methods. The results also informed the focus of our policy work to update the Plan’s goals and policies. Click here to read the results of this survey.

Planning and Community Development

Rico Quirindongo, Director
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 94788, Seattle, WA, 98124-7088
Phone: (206) 386-1010
opcd@seattle.gov

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