South Tacoma Neighborhood Plan
The City’s Neighborhood Planning Program (NPP) provides enhanced planning and development support to help communities create strong, vibrant, and diverse neighborhoods. City Council identified the South Tacoma Neighborhood as the location of the third Neighborhood Plan, launching in 2024. Plan goals and actions will be identified by the community through the planning process.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Art installations and murals
- Cleanup efforts
- Community identity, placemaking, and history
- Recognition and/or protection of cultural/historic resources
- Sustainability and environmental health actions, such as tree plantings
- Some elements of streetscape and public amenities
- Some elements of safety/traffic calming
- Determining the use of specific sites or properties
What's Happening Now?
After collecting input from the community via interviews, surveys, events, and focus groups since January of this year, the South Tacoma Neighborhood Plan Steering Group has drafted goals and draft actions. Please see below for summaries of our engagement and outreach.
The process is now in the draft actions and implementation planning phase where the community can confirm the community-identified draft actions and implementation approach. Check out our online engagement platform to learn more about ways to be involved, and:
- Vote for your top TWO projects to help support implementation of community priorities for the South Tacoma Neighborhood Plan. Help the South Tacoma Neighborhood choose which projects get their $50,000 Booster Grant!
- Sign up for our mailing list
- Contact us about scheduling a focus group or presentation for your group!
Learn more about what's happening now at our online engagement platform!
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South Tacoma Neighborhood
The South Tacoma Neighborhood Plan will focus our recommendations on the core commercial areas
and the surrounding residential neighborhoods. This area includes the South Tacoma Business District and Mixed-Use Center (roughly S Tacoma Way, S Washington St, and S Puget Sound Ave between S 47th St and S 58th St), and we will work closely with residents in the wider surrounding neighborhood to address how people access key neighborhood amenities and destinations. Click here for map PDF.
The Call: Get Involved, Stay Engaged!
Neighborhood stakeholders, led by a Steering Group working closely with City staff and a consultant team, will determine the goals of the plan and assist with creating a roadmap for implementation. Ways to get involved include:
- Share your feedback on our online engagement platform
- Join the Steering Group to help guide the Plan (deadline was March 11)
- Participate in events and take surveys to share your feedback
- Volunteer to assist with surveys, leading outreach, hosting an event, or helping build connections with community members who prefer Spanish, Russian, Khmer, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, ASL or other languages.
Stipends may be provided for specific contributions.
Estimated Timeline
We launched the program in January 2024 and anticipate completing the Plan and starting the early implementation process within 12 to 18 months.
Winter 2024: Neighborhood profile, existing conditions, and outreach
Spring 2024: Collect project ideas and hear priorities from the community
Summer – Fall 2024: Develop draft plan and collect community feedback
Winter 2025: Council adoption; begin implementation
Project Funding
The Neighborhood Planning Program will provide funding for technical support by a consultant team and $50,000 for initial implementation, as determined by the community. Major projects will be accomplished through partnerships between the City and our partners.