Puget Sound Mapping Project

Efforts

Efforts describe the goal-oriented activites of workgroups

• Knowledge Creation
  • Adaptive Management
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Lessons
  • Monitoring
  • Research
• Protection
  • Acquisition
  • Green Infrastructure
  • Regulation
• Restoration
  • Beach Nourishment
  • Engineered Log Jams
  • Fish Passage
  • Revegetation
• Social Change
  • Advocacy
  • Coordination
  • Education
  • Funding
  • Integrated Ecosystem Management
  • Legislation
  • Planning

Effort References

• RCO's PRISM Project Search
• Salmon Recovery Portal
• Ecology's Administration of Grants and Loans
• USACE Regulatory In-lieu Fee and Bank information Tracking System

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The Puget Sound Mapping Project is unique. Interactive maps allow local governments and other users to view current and expected development patterns in the Puget Sound region and help determine how they might impact the region’s environmental health.The tool can be used by local governments, special purpose districts, state and federal agencies, legislative staff, consultants and the public to:

• Assess growth patterns and trends over time;
• Help support decisions related to development projects, urban growth boundaries, and the need for environmental protection measures;
• Allow integration with Puget Sound Basin watershed characterization data and other data resources;
• Help support and strategically target compensatory mitigation actions.

Notes

• File:WDOC 2017 puget sound mapping project factsheet.pdf
• ArcGIS on-line map of zoning data (but doesn't include new unit data).
• The project data can be further enhanced by comparison to High Resolution Aerial Imagery Change Detection work
• It can be compared to assessment data like the Puget Sound Characterization Project, PSNERP, or Floodplains by Design efforts, and describe relative development rate or risk.
• It will integrate new housing unit point data, required by the washington state assessors office, to compare new unit creation to zoning.
• It was funded by the National Estuary Program, and this phase of work will wind down with a data release in October 2017.
• Zoning uses a categorization system that integrates county-by-county zoning codes.
• Follows Growth Management Act designations, and not Shoreline Managment Act.