2025 Climate Resiliency Plan

In May 2023, HB 1181 added climate planning as a new goal of the Growth Management Act (GMA).  This required cities like Centralia to add a resiliency element under RCW 36.70A.040 to our 2025 Comprehensive Plan update that is due in June 2025.  The City received a grant from the Department of Commerce to assist in the development of the Climate Resiliency Plan.

Centralia will need to create a Climate Resilience Plan that will anticipate, prepare for, and adapt to changes in climate and minimize negative impacts on our natural systems, infrastructure, and community.  The City will need to develop a plan that can build resilience by implementing a mix of preparedness, response, and recovery policies, including mitigating natural hazards, adapting to unavoidable impacts, and restoring natural areas that have degraded that provides key ecosystem services.

Climate Resiliency Plan

Centralia Climate Resiliency Plan  Adopted 11/25/2025 

Comprehensive Plan Open House

Public participation is a very important part of the planning process, and we want to hear from you.  The City is holding an Open House on the Comprehensive Plan on May 15th from 5-7 pm.  The Open House will be held in Borst Park (2020 Borst Avenue) in kitchen #2.  The Open House will be on the Comprehensive Plan (land use, housing, environment, economic development, utilities, and the capital facilities plan), Climate Resiliency Plan, Transportation Plan, and the Westside Connector project. For additional information on the open house and public participation.