Key Commitments
Employment target 50,540 jobs by 2044; MUGA employment target 8,009 by 2044; 35% of regional job growth through 2050
Goals
(4 total)
- ED Goal 1: Support and grow new and existing businesses that encourages new investments and job creation, and encourage a business climate that values diversity, equity, and inclusivity
- ED Goal 2: Create a diverse business community that is sustainable and resilient
- ED Goal 3: Strengthen and communicate Lynnwood's positive business climate and be a leader in economic development
- ED Goal 4: Enhance Lynnwood's livability and unique sense of place that highlights equity, inclusion, and opportunity
Stronger Policy Language (9 policies)
- ED Policy 2.2: Facilitate economic growth throughout the City in order to meet the City's anticipated employment growth targets, while achieving a balanced job-to-housing ratio.
- ED Policy 2.3: Concentrate a significant amount of economic growth in Lynnwood's designated City Center + Alderwood subarea and near high-capacity transit...
- ED Policy 2.8: Identify and implement strategies to maintain and diversify the City's tax base.
- ED Policy 3.6: Ensure continued economic growth in the City by periodically reviewing and updating the City's zoning map and municipal code...
- ED Policy 4.5: Identify and use a range of strategies to mitigate, to the extent feasible, the potential physical, economic, and cultural displacement of existing locally owned, small businesses...
Aspirational / Monitoring Language (19 policies)
- ED Policy 1.5: Foster a supportive environment that encourages the establishment and growth of business startups, small businesses, locally owned, and women- and minority-owned businesses.
- ED Policy 2.5: Ensure economic development sustains and respects the City's natural environment and encourage the further development of existing and emerging industries...
- ED Policy 3.7: Support endeavors that promote tourism and hospitality to grow key related industries.
- ED Policy 4.1: Maintain existing and foster new culturally diverse businesses that represent and serve the Lynnwood Community.
- ED Policy 4.2: Maintain and enhance arts, parks, cultural events, hospitality, entertainment, cultural institutions, and public amenities throughout the City...