Comprehensive Plan

Tukwila’s Comprehensive Plan is a long-term blueprint that reflects the community’s values and priorities to guide growth and development over 20 years. It anticipates change and provides guidance for future legislative and administrative decisions.

The 2024 Comprehensive Plan ordinance covers housing, transportation, economic development, capital facilities, utilities, the natural environment, and land uses across the city’s subareas. The plan focuses on three critical issues: housing affordability and variety, climate change and community resilience, and equity — ensuring City resources and services support all parts of the community over the next 20 years.

As part of the plan update, the City also adopted Middle Housing zoning amendments in response to state legislation. Learn more about Middle Housing in Tukwila.

The 2024 Plan builds on the 2015 Comprehensive Plan, incorporating updates to outdated information, new state and regional policy guidance the City is required to adopt, and new locally-driven policies and approaches. Each element includes goals, policies, and where applicable a background report. The plan also provides Implementation Strategies identifying the specific actions needed by the City and community to carry the plan forward. A final formatted version — including a title page, acknowledgments, and table of contents — is forthcoming and will replace the current draft elements linked below, though the content will be the same.

Core values

Plan elements

The adopted plan is available as a single adopted document in the digital records center, or browse the draft individual elements below.

• Introduction
• Community Character Element
• Land Use Element
  Background Report
• Regional Centers Element
• Housing Element
  Background ReportChecklist
• Economic Development Element
• Natural Environment Element
  Background Report
• Shoreline Element
• Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Element
  Background Report
• Transportation Element
  Background Report
• Utilities Element
  Background Report
• Capital Facilities Element
  Background Report

Implementation strategies

• Implementation Strategies (September 2024)

Environmental review

• SEPA Notice
• Environmental Checklist
• Staff Report
• Addendum to the EIS
• Tukwila Comprehensive Plan EIS (1995)

Plan amendments

Applications for Comprehensive Plan amendments are accepted by 5:00 PM on the first Monday of August each year and considered with the following year’s Annual Review Docket. See the Tukwila Municipal Code for details.

Questions or comments? Email 2044CompPlan@TukwilaWA.gov.