Planners' Update Newsletter Planning for Housing Housing Element Guidance and Webinar -- Commerce will soon finalize guidance for updating your community's housing element. MRSC is hosting a free webinar on the guidance on March 25th from 1-2:30 pm. More information on this webinar and a link to register can be found on MRSC's Upcoming Webinars webpage here. Commerce will publish a final draft of the guidance on our Growth Management Planning for Housing website by March 22. We hope you will review the guidance and provide feedback and comments.  Planners' Forums Upcoming Planners' Forums include the following: - Wed. April 28 - Eastern Planners' Forum. The time and topics are to be announced.
Presentations from past Regional Planners' Forums are found on our webpage. - The Feb. 22 Peninsula Forum featured speakers on homeless housing, the Washington Center for Real Estate Research's housing data, and a walk through of how to use existing data to determine your community's housing needs. Presentations are posted now, video forthcoming.
- The Jan. 27 Eastern Forum featured speakers on shrub steppe management, clean energy siting, and the Washington Department of Transportation's Active Transportation Plan. Presentations posted, link to video here.
Short Course on Local Planning The Short Course on local planning offered by Commerce provides: - An overview of the complex mix of land use planning laws that work together to support land-use decision-making in Washington state,
- An introduction to comprehensive planning and plan implementation under the Growth Management Act,
- A review of the roles in planning and best practices for public participation, and
- Mandatory training on the Open Public Meetings Act for local government officials and introduction to the Public Records Act.
All courses are offered at no charge and are open to the public. Click on the links below to register. Some courses are scheduled during business hours to allow staff to attend. While in-person gatherings are limited, Commerce is also offering e-visits to local planning commissions or other group meetings via the Zoom app. Contact your regional planner to request presentations on topics such as Comprehensive Plan Basics and Roles in the Planning Process. 2021 Critical Areas and Shoreline Monitoring & Adaptive Management Online Workshops The Washington State Departments of Commerce, Ecology and Fish and Wildlife invite you to join us for an in-depth review of best practices, case studies, resources and tools to enhance monitoring and adaptive management efforts for your critical areas and shorelines. Click on a link below to register for the free Zoom webinars (you may choose to attend one or all). All webinars will take place from 9-11 a.m.. For full webinar descriptions and more information about the series, visit the project webpage. In case you missed any of the previous workshops 1 through 9, links to the recordings and presentations of past workshops are posted on the project webpage. HUD Lead Hazard Control & Healthy Homes Funding Webinar HUD's Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH) is seeking partners to expand efforts to insure a healthy, sustainable living environment for our most vulnerable residents. Join HUD, Region X, on Wednesday, March 31st from 10-11am PST for an informational webinar on the hows-and-whys and nuts-and-bolts of HUD's Lead Hazard Reduction and Healthy Homes grant programs. The webinar will feature HUD's Regional Healthy Homes Director, Karen Griego, who has 29 years of experience with these programs and helping local government develop successful partnerships to make communities healthier. To register, sign up here: Event Management and Registration Control - (hud.gov). Webinar: Just Growth: Advancing A Racial Equity Agenda Through Land Use EcoDistricts will be hosting renowned Nathaniel Smith of Partnership for Southern Equity on March 17th at 11 am PST. Nathaniel Smith is a passionate advocate for equitable land use practices and one of the top leaders in holistic community sustainability. In this webinar, Nathaniel will enlighten our community on best practices for advancing racial equity agendas through land use practices. Register for this free webinar here. Subscribe to our Planners' Update Newsletter Do you have new staff or know of someone who would like to know about planning news in Washington? If so, please direct them to sign up for the Commerce's Planners' Update newsletter by visiting the main Department of Commerce webpage at https://www.commerce.wa.gov/. Scroll to the bottom of the page to the "subscribe" area, enter your email and click "submit" to choose subscriptions you would like to receive. | 
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