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Comprehensive Plan
Help shape the future of our community!
The city is updating the Comprehensive Plan. Join us over the next two years as we discuss our biggest challenges, our greatest strengths, and find solutions to improve the quality of life for all to call this place home permanently or for a short while.
The Comprehensive Plan is a big-picture guide that helps the city decide how to grow, develop, and make investments over the next 10-years. The plan will cover topics important to all of us, such as transportation, land use, public safety, economic development, housing and infrastructure. It will define long-range goals and outline specific, actionable strategies for achieving them, giving City staff, leadership, residents and the development community a clear roadmap for the future.
The plan development process is giving special attention economics and is studying Transit opportunities! We want to help you get to where you want to go more easily, reliably and affordably. Stay tuned for transit-specific outreach and to get involved in the planning process this fall.
Plan Purpose and Background:
Unalaska is one of Alaska’s most distinctive communities, remote and resilient, with rich cultural and historical roots, a strong creative spirit, and a critical role in the state’s economy and logistics network. Like many Alaskan communities, Unalaska is navigating a period of transition. The City of Unalaska is looking ahead and asking essential questions about the future:
- Where will residents live and work in the coming decade?
- What infrastructure and services will they need?
- How can Unalaska meet housing demand while preserving the community’s access to nature, subsistence areas, and recreational spaces?
- And how can the community remain resilient, economically, socially and environmentally, through this ongoing change?
An update to the Comprehensive Plan will provide a framework to answer these questions. It will serve as a community-driven policy document that establishes a shared vision for the next 10 years, grounded in local values and informed by data, trends and community input. It will:
- Guide planning, development and investment for the next 10 years.
- Reflect the voice of the community by accurately describing community needs, goals and priorities.
- Focus resources on community priorities.
- Serve as a decision-making tool for City leaders, staff, residents and developers.
- Include a clear action plan with strategies aligned to community goals.
This update will go beyond compliance or documentation. It will build a resilient and responsive foundation for Unalaska’s future, ensuring the community is well-positioned to navigate demographic shifts, economic transitions and infrastructure needs.
A key component of this planning effort will be a supporting transit study to assess the feasibility of a public transit system and explore operational models that could improve mobility for residents and visitors alike.
Project Management Team Contacts:
City of Unalaska:
- Cameron Dean – Planning Director
R&M Consultants, Inc:
- Beth McKibben, AICP – Project Manager
Supporting Documents
Comprehensive Plan Fact Sheet (136 KB) Comprehensive Plan Graphic Schedule (226 KB) Project Management Plan (536 KB) Public Involvement Plan (556 KB) 
