Housing Density Rises As Urban Areas Absorb Most of Region’s Growth
Now in its second year, the Sustainable Thurston Report Card shows that the region is making significant progress toward meeting goals to increase urban growth and reduce sprawl. The region is falling far short of its goals to reduce waste and ensure residents have the resources to meet their basic needs, however.
The report card includes 30 measures of sustainability and builds on TRPC’s Regional Benchmarks for Thurston County, which tracked the region’s progress toward meeting goals of the 1990 Growth Management Act. Such sustainability measures are grouped into six categories — Community, Economy, Opportunities & Choices, Investment, Environment, and Transportation — and feature information about what’s being measured, why it’s important, and what we can do make progress.
Progress is expressed like a weather forecast — sunny, partly sunny, and cloudy.
Four regional goals and targets are listed below; explore the complete list at
www.trpc.org/reportcard.