“Our Juneau” Comprehensive Plan
Juneau, AK · 2025–present
Client: City and Borough of Juneau
Location: Juneau, AK
Year: 2025–present (in progress)
CP Role: Lead consultant
Practice Area: Visioning + Long-Range Planning
Team: Sachi Arakawa, Project Manager; Irene Kim; Rachel Cotton; Finley Heeb; Sara Goldstein
The Challenge
Juneau's Comprehensive Plan dates from 2013, and Alaska's capital now faces an aging population, rising home prices, climate change, and economic shifts at once. A plan built on one forecast could be out of date within a decade.
Our Approach
We are testing Juneau's choices against several possible futures, so the plan holds up whichever one arrives. Residents worked through our Regional Choices Game to build strategies that hold up across those futures, and scenario choosing is now under way, with strong support for a Multiple Centers scenario. Next we will turn the preferred scenario into goals and actions, a parcel-by-parcel future land use map, and a monitoring dashboard staff can run themselves.
Where It Stands
Sachi Arakawa leads the update, which is on track to finish with a public open house and adoption support before the Planning Commission and Assembly.
