Mayor Johnson invites applicants for Town Center Plan Advisory Task Force

Lake Forest Park neighborhoods

At its meeting on November 16, the City Council adopted Resolution 1655, creating a Town Center Plan Advisory Task Force. The purpose of the Task Force is to advise the City Council on community perspectives related to products of the subarea discussion and to make recommendations to the Council on a consensus basis.

The five- to seven-member Task Force will be appointed by the Mayor and will be recruited on a citywide basis in order to allow consideration of balanced geographic representation from throughout the City. The City Council and Planning Commission will also each appoint a liaison to the Task Force who will function in an ex-officio capacity.

The Task Force will be involved in the first phase of the subarea planning process: creation of the framework vision and the development of the subarea plan itself. At that point, the plan goes into code development, and the Task Force will be dissolved. It is currently estimated the first phase will take 4-6 months.

If you are interested in serving on the Town Center Plan Advisory Task Force, please submit a letter of interest to Mayor Johnson via email or mail/drop it off at City Hall, 17425 Ballinger Way NE, Lake Forest Park, 98155.

While the plan involves the Town Center area, it is important that the Task Force members come from the City’s various neighborhoods, and Mayor Johnson strongly encourages applicants from throughout the community to apply.

Letters of interest will be accepted through 5:00pm on Friday, December 22, 2017.