SeaTac Comprehensive Plan SeaTac, Washington
To integrate current community priorities and ensure consistency with state and regional growth management planning, the Envision SeaTac 2044 Comprehensive Plan was updated to aid decision-making and development for the next twenty years. Otak collaborated closely with City staff to provide inclusive and extensive community engagement to help shape the plan, and we helped guide City leadership review throughout the planning process. We also developed a geographic information systems (GIS)-based Equity Index Mapping Tool to help the City understand and expand access to opportunities—housing choices, parks and recreation, healthy foods, transit and transportation choices, social and public services, jobs and economic options, and other quality of life enhancements.
Expanding Communitywide Access to Opportunities, Aided by Geospatial Mapping
Strengthening the community’s identity and planning for anticipated growth and change, the updated SeaTac Comprehensive Plan provides guidance for decision-making and policy with a focus on enhancing community well-being and expanding access to opportunities informed by development of a specific SeaTac Equity Index Mapping Tool. Key growth strategies include expanding multimodal transportation and access to light rail stations, providing a range of housing choices for residents, and enhancing services and infrastructure to support growth and development. The Equity Index Tool helped identify and address inequities within the community to better guide the allocation of resources and focus of policy-making in long-range planning. The comprehensive plan provides elected and appointed officials, city staff, residents, and the business and development communities, with a comprehensive, consistent, equitable, easy to use, and culturally-relevant plan.
The Equity Index, developed for Seatac's Comprehensive Plan, harnesses ESRI’s geostatistical tools to spatially aggregate and scale key environmental and social variables to the Census Block Group that intersect the city. The city chose variables such as access to education, transportation and amenities, livability indicators, housing quality, environmental health indicators, and employment opportunities. There were then combined with scaled index values to create meaningful insights into where disparities or opportunities may exist throughout SeaTac’s neighborhoods.
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