Speaker Topic & Bio
TOPIC: VISION 2050, A Comparative Regional Planning Perspective
This presentation will provide insights into transportation planning, growth management, and economic development with two dynamic regions – each with differing approaches to growth. Josh Brown, Executive Director of the Puget Sound Regional Council, will review similarities and differences between policies and practices within the central Puget Sound region (King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties) and California’s Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). He’ll also look ahead at planning for 2050 in both regions, focusing on the PSRC’s new draft VISION 2050 plan and Plan Bay Area 2050.
BIO:
Josh Brown is the Executive Director of the Puget Sound Regional Council. PSRC works to support a thriving central Puget Sound region through planning for growth, transportation, and economic development. PSRC also provides more than $280 million annually to fund transportation projects and serves as a resource for regional data on transportation, the economy, population, and housing.
Under Josh’s leadership planning is advancing to the year 2050, when the region’s population is expected to reach nearly 6 million. The region’s new VISION 2050 plan will serve as a blueprint for regional growth and development for the next 30 years. PSRC is also leading a new regional aviation baseline study that will set the stage for future planning. This year the PSRC will also select projects for an estimated $600 million in federal funds.
Josh serves at the direction of a 32-member Executive Board comprised of elected leadership from King, Pierce Snohomish and Kitsap counties.
Prior to becoming Executive Director, Josh was elected to two terms as Kitsap County Commissioner. While Commissioner, he was active in regional issues and served as PSRC President for two years.
Josh attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a degree focused on city and regional planning.
This presentation will provide insights into transportation planning, growth management, and economic development with two dynamic regions – each with differing approaches to growth. Josh Brown, Executive Director of the Puget Sound Regional Council, will review similarities and differences between policies and practices within the central Puget Sound region (King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties) and California’s Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). He’ll also look ahead at planning for 2050 in both regions, focusing on the PSRC’s new draft VISION 2050 plan and Plan Bay Area 2050.
BIO:
Josh Brown is the Executive Director of the Puget Sound Regional Council. PSRC works to support a thriving central Puget Sound region through planning for growth, transportation, and economic development. PSRC also provides more than $280 million annually to fund transportation projects and serves as a resource for regional data on transportation, the economy, population, and housing.
Under Josh’s leadership planning is advancing to the year 2050, when the region’s population is expected to reach nearly 6 million. The region’s new VISION 2050 plan will serve as a blueprint for regional growth and development for the next 30 years. PSRC is also leading a new regional aviation baseline study that will set the stage for future planning. This year the PSRC will also select projects for an estimated $600 million in federal funds.
Josh serves at the direction of a 32-member Executive Board comprised of elected leadership from King, Pierce Snohomish and Kitsap counties.
Prior to becoming Executive Director, Josh was elected to two terms as Kitsap County Commissioner. While Commissioner, he was active in regional issues and served as PSRC President for two years.
Josh attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a degree focused on city and regional planning.