Mill Creek Comprehensive Plan

What is a Comprehensive Plan?
Mill Creek’s Comprehensive Plan is a 20-year roadmap that envisions the City’s long-term growth, infrastructure, and services. It articulates a series of goals and policies intended to guide the day-to-day decisions of elected officials and City staff.

The plan is intended to be a comprehensive guide with policies to be used in making decisions concerning future land uses, establishing urban growth boundaries and city limits, extensions of community services and facilities, locations of future transportation/circulation facilities, parks and open space, designation and protection of environmentally sensitive areas and desirable urban design elements of the City.

The Comprehensive Plan is organized into elements, like chapters in a book. The goals and policies in the Plan are implemented in a variety of ways including through city programs and regulations, such as zoning.

Help Shape the Future of Mill Creek
The City of Mill Creek is updating its comprehensive plan for the next twenty years, and beyond. As the plan is developed, the City will engage the community on important topics including land use and development, housing availability, environmental concerns, and infrastructure.

Why is it being updated?
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Why is the Comprehensive Plan being updated?
Washington State's Growth Management Act (GMA) requires that cities and counties update their Comprehensive Plans on a periodic schedule. The primary purpose of the periodic update is to ensure local plans and regulations are consistent with recent changes to state law and updates to countywide policies, and to update information such as population changes and infrastructure investment needs. The update includes planning for new housing, people, and jobs, reviewing existing policies to make sure they still make sense for the community, and write new policies that reflect the priorities of Mill Creek. The deadline for adoption of this update is December 31, 2024.

• Land Use Element	• Parks Element
• Housi ng Element	• Transportation Element
• Environment Element	• Utilities Element
• Economic Vitality Element	• Capital Facilities Element

Other Sections:
• Introduction	• Community Profile