Metropolitan Cities Alternative

This alternative represents the most densely focused regional growth pattern among the alternatives. The largest shares of the region’s future growth would occur in the region’s five major Metropolitan Cities: Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Bremerton and Tacoma. Growth would also be focused into the region’s Core Suburban Cities – those larger suburban municipalities that are already envisioned as important locations for regional growth.

In this alternative, considerable redevelopment would occur in the region’s largest cities, with most new jobs reinforcing them as major regional employment centers – as is currently planned - along with a significant concentration of new apartments, condominiums and townhouses built near job centers and in areas close to high capacity transit systems.

Significantly less growth would occur in the region's Rural and Unincorporated Urban Areas than is currently planned. Growth that is currently planned for these areas would shift to Metropolitan and Core Suburban Cities.