Transportation and Mobility Plan (formerly the Transportation Master Plan)
Transportation and the Comprehensive Plan
The One Tacoma Comprehensive Plan provides the policy framework that guides the City’s long-term vision, growth, and development over the next 25 years. As part of the Washington State Growth Management Act (GMA), counties, cities, and towns are required to update their Comprehensive Plans every ten years to ensure alignment with state and regional policies. Tacoma's state-mandated Comprehensive Plan update is currently underway.
The One Tacoma Comprehensive Plan consists of multiple chapters—also called elements—each outlining goals and policies on topics such as housing, parks and recreation, economic development, land use, and transportation. In Tacoma, the Transportation Element of the One Tacoma Comprehensive Plan also serves as the City's Transportation and Mobility Plan (TMP).
One of the key mandates of the update is accommodating expected future growth in Tacoma including growth expected under Home in Tacoma. Between now and 2050, Tacoma is expected to gain 137,000 residents and 94,000 jobs according to the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC). Other areas of focus for the update are to:
- Strengthen goals, policies, and project prioritization to ensure that safety, equity, sustainability, and public health are prioritized
- Develop multimodal level of service standards
- Collaborate with Pierce Transit and Sound Transit to identify the transit priority corridors and plan for the needed access improvements and land use to support transit
- Update the five modal elements and create two new functional elements related to curb management and public streets/people spaces
DRAFT 2025 Transportation and Mobility Plan Available for Public Comment!
How to submit public comment
Public comment can be provided by email, mail, and/or at the Planning Commission public hearing. Comments must be submitted by Friday, March 7, 2025.
- By email: planningtacoma@cityoftacoma.org
- By mail: City of Tacoma Planning Commission, 747 Market Street, Room 345 Tacoma, WA 98402
- Public hearing: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM, City Council Chamber
To learn more about the One Tacoma Comprehensive Plan Update, including information about upcoming public events and Planning Commission meetings, please visit: cityoftacoma.org/onetacomaupdate