Recreation, Parks and Open Space Plan Update

The City of Mountlake Terrace, Washington, is seeking a consultant team to update its Recreation, Parks and Open Space Plan (RPOS) for the 2028-2034 planning term and to complete a Park Impact Fee Rate Study alongside it. The City, about 13 miles north of downtown Seattle with roughly 25,000 residents, maintains 293 acres of property, a Recreation Pavilion, a community clubhouse, athletic fields, trails and a lake. The plan is required every six years to satisfy the Washington Growth Management Act and keep the City eligible for state and federal recreation grants, and it will become an element of the City's Comprehensive Plan. The consultant will review the existing plan and related master plans, assess existing conditions and level of service across parks, facilities, trails and open space, and analyze demographics, growth and recreation trends. A major task is public engagement scaled for a small city: a statistically valid household survey, user surveys, focus groups and workshops, with translation and interpretation for Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian and Korean speakers and outreach to youth, older adults and people with disabilities. The team will also assess natural resource conservation, incorporate public art into the plan as a chapter, and update the vision, goals, policies and level-of-service standards through an equity lens.