Growth Management, Washington's Way: Take Action

Care about your community? Want to save farmland and forests? Want to protect native habitat? Do the three-step!

First, learn about smart growth policies and the Washington Growth Management Act. Go to GMA 101.

Second, become involved with local organizations that advocate for good planning (see list below), write letters to the editor, and make your voice heard before county and city council meetings.

Third, if your local government does something bad (that violates the GMA), inform Futurewise, the state's leading smart growth organization, and petition your growth management hearings board to review it. You will play an important part of our state's citizen-participation approach to enforcing the GMA. See list of law firms and environmental legal programs below.

Local Smart Growth "Friends" Groups

Statewide: Futurewise

Olympic Peninsula: Olympic Environmental Council, Protect the Peninsula's Future

- Grays Harbor County: Friends of Grays Harbor

Puget Sound: People for Puget Sound, Puget Soundkeeper Allinace, Hood Canal Environmental Council

- Island County: Evergreen Islands, Whidbey Environmental Action Network

- King County: Friends of the Hylebos Wetlands, Preserve Our Islands

- Kitsap County: Beaver Creek Conservation Group

- Pierce County: Citizens for a Healthy Bay, Tahoma Audubon Society

- San Juan County: Friends of the San Juans

- Skagit County: Friends of Skagit County, Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, Evergreen Islands

- Snohomish County: Pilchuck Audubon Society,