Tell Bellingham’s City Staff You Support Their Plan for Our Future!
The Draft Growth Strategy released by City Staff outlines a resilient approach to growth over the next 20-year comprehensive planning period.
Here’s Why it’s Good for Bellingham:
The plan reduces sprawl by making room in the City for more housing. It removes Urban Growth Areas with no capacity for more housing (and no desire to be a part of the City) and includes land that will provide healthy housing that working-class people can afford.
One component of the plan includes the North UGA Reserve, also known as Larrabee Springs where there is buildable land to continue growing Washington’s largest, green-built solar community. Larrabee Springs is ready to build the variety of affordable new housing our community needs TODAY!
Bellingham’s Draft Growth Strategy Takes a Balanced Approach to Growth
Reduces Sprawl
Introduces New Buildable Land
Infill in Urban Villages
Supports a Variety of Land Uses
Supports Complete Neighborhoods
Completion of Existing Infrastructure Deficiencies
Housing Along Transit Corridors
The Draft Growth Strategy is a plan that will help our community out of our current housing crisis while proactively planning ahead for future growth so we’re not stuck in a perpetual cycle of limited housing supply.
Add Your Voice to the Record and Tell City Staff You Support Their Plan for Our Community!
Copy the message below (or write your own), click the link, scroll to the comment box and submit your feedback so the City Council and Mayor’s Office knows you support a resilient and sustainable approach to growth for Bellingham’s future.
Sample Message
I approve of the balanced approach to growth that includes infill within the City, capital improvement investments for infrastructure such as water tanks, transit-oriented development, complete neighborhoods, and the addition of Bellingham’s Urban Growth Area Reserves for new communities. Each element proposed in the Draft Growth Strategy is equally important for a resilient future.
Thank you!
Setting the Stage for Sustainable Growth
Why is it so expensive to live in Bellingham? There’s a housing shortage and a shortage of buildable land that can support new housing now.
At Larrabee Springs, we are committed to being part of the solution to end Bellingham’s housing crisis. Once the North UGA is added to the City, Larrabee Springs will be able to supply more new affordable middle housing, intergenerational housing, cottage homes, multi-family homes and single family homes with ADUs.
For over a decade, Larrabee Springs has been providing Bellingham with some of the most affordable new housing in the area. It’s our mission to build healthy, energy-efficient homes using sustainable practices. Each home comes with solar panels, energy recovery ventilators, and has a 220 watt outlet to support electric vehicles. Importantly, every home is built by local people using as many local materials as possible.
The Draft Grow Strategy will put us on the right course so you can afford to call Bellingham home.
Check out what the future holds!
