Submit nominations for governor’s Smart Communities awards

Gov. Jay Inslee invites nominations for outstanding work by local governments and their partners on community planning and development. The awards have been an annual event since 2006. Inslee is proud to sponsor the Smart Communities Awards to recognize these hard-won accomplishments.

The values and priorities of each community shine through their individual plans for how they want to look and function twenty or fifty years from now.

For one community it may be an emphasis on supporting agriculture, another prioritizing their downtown redevelopment – but it all adds up to shared vision,...