2011 Comprehensive Plan

What is a Comprehensive Plan?

Cities and counties in Washington State are required to plan for Growth under a 1994 law called the Growth Management Act. The State of Washington mandates the development of Comprehensive Plans through the Growth Management Act. The Act mandates the Comprehensive Plan include information and analysis on Land-Use, Transportation, Housing, the Natural Environment, Capital Facilities, Utilities, Economic Development and Parks.

The purpose of a Comprehensive Plan is to anticipate growth and to guide this growth in a manner that will provide a community with a balance of land uses and identified services to support those uses. The Comprehensive Plan looks into the future to the year 2025. City planners estimate how projected growth will affect various aspects of the built environment such as transportation, parks, water, sewer and storm water facilities.

The City uses the Comprehensive Plan as a yardstick for measuring its future activities and determines how the City will finance needed improvements to serve the anticipated 11,119 people who are expected to live in Sultan in the year 2025.

How can I learn more?

1. Sign-up for public notices on the City’s website to receive regular updates on city events, activities and public comment opportunities. Please see the directions at the bottom of the page for joining the public notices list-serv.
2. Attend council meetings on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month.
3. Send written comments or e-mails to the mayor, council or city staff. Contact information is available on the city’s web site here.
4. Call 360-793-2231.

What does the Comprehensive Plan do?

The city council adopted guiding principles for the 2011 Comprehensive Plan.

1. Aligning the city’s comprehensive plan with the multi-county planning policies (MPP) developed by the Puget Sound Regional Council and the county-wide planning policies developed by Snohomish County.
2. Incorporating new multi-county planning policies and county-wide planning policies (i.e. climate change) into the comprehensive plan.
3. Reviewing the city’s infrastructure inventories and development regulations to ensure consistency with the growth management act.
4. Amending the city’s current growth strategy which places an emphasis on waiting for retail development before supporting residential development
5. Placing a greater emphasis on zoning and proposed land use changes during the ten-year update in 2012-2015.

2011 Comprehensive Plan

• Chapters
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Community Design
• Chapter 3 - Land Use
• Chapter 4 - Housing
• Chapter 5 - Natural Environment
• Chapter 6 - Economic Development
• Chapter 7 - Parks and Recreation
• Chapter 8 - Transportation
• Chapter 9 - Capital Facilities
• Chapter 10 - Utilites
• Appendices
• Appendix A - Definitions
• Appendix B - Cover
• Appendix B - POP Forecast
• Appendix C - Cover
• Appendix C - Shoreline Element Goals
• Appendix D - Public Process
• Appendix E - CFP Financial Resources
• Appendix F - Cover
• Appendix F - CPP
• Appendix G - Cover
• Appendix G - MPP
• Appendix H - Cover
• Appendix H - PROS Plan
• Appendix I - Cover
• Appendix I - Revenue Forecast
• Appendix J - Public Comment
• Appendix K - Documents

2010 Water System Plan

2010 General Sewer Plan