As part of the 2010 Washington Planning Awards Program, 26 different nominations were received by PAW, who administered and managed the awards program this year under the PAW and APA Washington arragement of rotating the administration of the awards program between the two organizations.
Nominations were received in six different categories. The jury reviewed all submissions electronically on-line, held a face to face final jury selection in June, and then chose 12 planning projects for recognition-six Winners and six Honorable Mentions in the different categories.
The winners and honorable mention projects are as follows:
| Category | 2010 APA/PAW Awards Winners & Honorable Mentions | |
| Winner | Honorable Mention | |
| Student | Eastern Washington University South University District Assessment | University of Washington Seattle DOT-City of SeattleBicycle Share Feasibility Program |
| CitizenInvolvement | City of Chehalis Chehalis Renaissance Project | Town of Concrete Concrete Community Visioning |
| Implementation | City of Oak Harbor Oak Harbor Subdivision Code | City of Tukwila Tukwila’s Walk & Roll Non-MotorizedTransportation Plan and Design Report |
| Transportation | City of Tacoma Complete Streets Design Guidelines | Puget Sound Regional Council Vision 2040 |
| Sustainability | City of Spokane Spokane Greenhouse Gas Inventory | City of Bainbridge Island Housing Design Demonstration Projects |
| Physical Plans | City of Bellevue Bel-Red Subarea Plan | City of Vancouver Waterfront Redevelopment |
Some recipients were able to attend the Western Planner Conference in Vancouver, WA and receive their recognition plaque, while others were not. APA Co-Chair, Richard Hart, AICP, traveled to those cities and made presentations to the Councils or Boards of the winners and honorable mention recipients. Recipients are very excited about their honors and appreciative of the work that APA Washington and PAW is doing to recognize outstanding projects in our State.
Juror’s Comments
1.) Category: Student Projects
Winner- Eastern Washington University-South University District Assessment
“Project well tailored as to scope and outcome. Project sophisticated and useful but relatively easy to understand. Seems to have had a real impact on policy makers and influencing outcomes.” “Study provided detailed land use inventory and suggestions for redevelopment-good work for a student group working with a limited timeframe.”
Honorable Mention- University of Washington – Seattle DOT-Seattle Bike Share Feasibility
“Study is timely and constructive – both Seattle and King County are working to develop bike share proposals. Used demographic and infrastructure data to pinpoint bike share feasibility areas, and also conducted a demand analysis. Techniques employed in this project could be adapted to any city.”
2.) Category: Transportation Plans
Winner- City of Tacoma – Complete Streets Design Guidelines
“Well executed, understandable, and reproducible.” “Developed an extensive system of complete street typologies tailored to fit specific conditions.” “Multi-modal; very useful and pragmatic work; gives planners and engineers more tools to use in tackling local transportation issues.”
Honorable Mention- Puget Sound Regional Council -Transportation 2040
“Held over 450 meetings to gather input, and used the “CMART” public comment management tool to direct electronic comments from the public to the appropriate party.”
3.) Category: Sustainability
Winner- City of Spokane – Greenhouse Gas Inventory
“Comprehensive sustainability effort already producing results, but more importantly has fundamentally changed the way they will do business in the future.”
Honorable Mention- City of Bainbridge Island –Housing Design Demonstration Projects
“Creative way to advance affordable and green housing.” “Strong effort to systematically offer incentives for environmentally conscientious housing construction.”
4.) Category: Implementation
Winner- City of Oak Harbor – Oak Harbor Subdivision Code
“Very creative effort from a relatively small jurisdiction. Makes complex regulations understandable, strong public involvement, creative concept (use of ordinarily mundane subdivision code to advance modern concepts.” …“Project is reducing permit review time by allowing city staff to communicate code requirements more effectively at the outset and by combining certain processes.” “Very usable and practical product; thorough and comprehensive.”
Honorable Mention- City of Tukwila – Walk and Roll Non-Motorized Transportation Plan and Design Report
“Professional work in confronting a problem many other communities also face. Since adopting, the City has moved forward with construction and grants.” “Comprehensive and well reasoned plan, employed a set of seven overarching objectives, included numerical measures on existing conditions and performance goals, addressed costs estimates through a thorough design report.” “Plan offers realistic approach to providing non-motorized transportation facilities, and new bike lanes and sidewalks have already ben constructed pursuant to this plan.” …”even liked the name: Walk and Roll Plan”
5.) Category: Citizen Involvement
Winner- City of Chehalis – Chehalis Renaissance Project
“Sophisticated and expansive outreach effort. 30 workshops with task force, council mtgs. Internet survey, charette, mail and phone survey. Results defined the product which is already seeing extensive use and implementation.”
Honorable Mention- Town of Concrete – Concrete Community Visioning
“I was impressed by the scope and quality of the effort given the size and sophistication of the community. Results already in use and seeing some success.”
6.) Category: Physical Plans
Winner- City of Bellevue – Bel-Red Subarea Plan
“Possibly most significant large area transformation yet attempted in WA.” … “employed a multitude of tools to achieve the goals of the subarea plan…developed sound benchmarks to measure progress”… “Good partnering; very productive use of interdisciplinary collaboration.”
Honorable Mention- City of Vancouver-Waterfront Plan
“Targeted focus, comprehensive design plan, ready for implementation. Will continue Vancouver’s major transformation.”… “used a variety of techniques to develop the plan (GIS mapping, 3D architectural programs, clay models, WebEx)…”
