Resolution 1529RESOLUTION NO. 1529
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EDMONDS, WASHING TON FOR FINALIZING THE CITY OF
EDMONDS 2024 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN VISION
STATEMENT
WHEREAS, a Vision Statement is a legislative policy; and
WHEREAS, the Council is the legislative branch of government with the authority to set policy;
and
WHEREAS, a State requirement does not require a Vision Statement to be part of the
Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, much outreach was done to gather inputs on the community vision; and
WHEREAS, data was collected in a fair and representative way during this outreach; and
WHEREAS, the Administration, Council, and public all want to honor the inputs and have a
Vision Statement for the 2024 Comprehensive Plan update process that represents those inputs;
and
WHEREAS, the Council is dissatisfied that an ambiguous term in the Vision Statement was not
defined in the initial validation survey issued; and
WHEREAS, the validation survey of the public as to whether the City got the Vision Statement
right generated only 150 responses, and those were evenly split 51 % "yes" to 49% "no"; and
WHEREAS, the community provided more validation input in a public hearing on August 2,
2023 and in other input processes since concerning how the vision statement could be edited to
better represent the inputs from the community engagement; and
WHEREAS, the Council wants to make sure the community's true values and vision are guiding
our 2024 Comprehensive Plan process by ensuring the vision statement accurately reflects the
citizen input submitted, and reflects the best iterative process, rather than finalized with first
draft;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
1. That the vision statement validation inputs (from the August 2, 2023 public hearing and
other) be considered by staff for best representation of the original data collected, and
then the staffs second draft, modified or not from the first, be sent to the Planning Board
and Council as soon as possible, but not later than October 11, 2023.
2. That the word cloud, Edmonds Visioning Survey results, the original draft vision
statement, and the Bloom revision of the draft vision statement will be provided to the
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Planning Board in their board packet, as soon as possible, but not later than October 11,
2023.
3. That the Planning Board will provide feedback and recommendations to the City Council
about which of the versions to adopt ("as is" or with suggested revisions) as soon as
possible, but not later than November 30, 2023.
4. That the revised draft Vision Statement will then come to Council for approval, and
5. That the Council will approve and make final the 2024 Edmonds Comprehensive Plan
Update Vision Statement as soon as possible, but no later than the last Council meeting of
2023, for the purposes of guiding the 2024 Comprehensive Plan update work by the staff,
consultants, and any other parties guiding or leading the update process.
RESOLVED this 5th day of September 2023.
ATTEST:
ASSEY
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK:
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL:
RESOLUTION NO.
CITY OF EDMONDS
September 1, 2023
September 5, 2023
1529
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