The Growth Management Act (GMA) requires communities to plan for infrastructure and offers new revenue sources local governments can use for capital facilities.  Capital facilities plans (CFPs) are essential to local and statewide efforts to maintain economic vitality and high quality of life.  Adequate water, wastewater treatment, and road capacity are important to many local efforts to attract new industry.  Maintaining and expanding local storm water management programs and upgrading or adding wastewater treatment in many localities will be important to restoring wild salmon.

The Growth Management Unit supports capital facility planning in Washington by providing jurisdictions with technical assistance.  Please see the following websites for more information about what we do and what is being done in Washington State.

• EPA Financing for Environmental Compliance Website 
• MRSC Link for Capital Facility Planning In the Growth Management Act - "The Third Promise of the Growth Management Act"  by Pat Dugan
• Capital Facilities Planning Template User's Guide 3.0 
• GMA and Capital Facilities Fact Sheet 
• GMA and Capital Facilities Template Fact Sheet
• Newsletter - About Growth, 1999
• Newsletter - About Growth, 1995
•  Tips About Public Works Projects for the Purpose of Developing a Capital Facilities Plan 
• Infrastructure Database is your resource for locating infrastructure funding or technical assistance in Washington State.  This site is brought to you by the Infrastructure Assistance Coordinating Council (IACC). 
• Infrastructure Grants and Loans for Cities (Association of Washington Cities)
• Making your Comprehensive Plan a Reality, A Guide to a Capital Facilities Plan, GMS (to order call 360.725.3000)
• Level of Service Standards - Measures for Maintaining the Quality of Community Life. MRSC Report No. 31, September 1994. $20.00(City/County)/$30.00(All Others). Offers help with developing innovative approaches to level of service standards which will deliver quality services in tight budgetary times. Emphasizes approaches which support overall community goals and growth managment efforts. Useful to any community engaged in capital facility planning.

About the Capital Facilities Planning Template

How well is your jurisdiction able to prioritize a variety of capital projects in light of a shrinking budget? The Capital Facilities Planning (CFP) Template may be the tool for your jurisdiction! It is designed to use policies from your comprehensive plan to guide CFP development -- from conceptual projects through the rating and ranking of the projects across programs to production of a formatted CFP document and presentation graphics. The CFP Template is developed in Excel and Word.

The 2007 training for the Capital Facilities Planning Template is underway.  CTED is exploring the possibility of putting the template online, however that is a long-term goal and until then, we will continue to help train individual jurisdictions or regional organizations that will in turn, train their interested member jurisdictions.  Priority for training will be given to cities and towns with a population of less than 5,000 and counties less than 50,000.

Template Support Information:

Message phone:  360.725.3042 (we will return your call within 24 hours)
Email Capital Facilities Planning Template
Listserv address:  http://listserv.wa.gov/archives/cfp-list.html 
Lynn Kohn,  Senior Planner
Telephone: 360.725.3042

Other Links

• TIB
• IACC  
• CRAB  
• CDP
• PWB
• MRSC   
• Infrastructure Study 
• BSU Environmental Finance Center

Good examples of capital facilities elements:

1. City of SeaTac
2. Issaquah
3. Renton
4. Olympia 2004-2010
5. Olympia - capital facilities planning element
6. Tacoma
7. Thurston County
8. Vancouver - Part 1
9. Vancouver - Part 2
10. Vancouver - Part 3
11. Vancouver - Appendix D
12. City of Wenatchee