After completing the City’s Comprehensive Plan Update, the Downtown and Housing Subarea Plan was identified as a community priority and area of study. The implementation of the project was realized when the city was awarded grant funding from E2SHB 1923. The study was focused on two primary areas. The first was the downtown area on Main Street and Park Street. The downtown portion of the plan analyzed land use trends, studied the differences between the main street district and the highway corridor development, and produced code provisions for the downtown overlay zone. Zoning overlay provisions improved parking, enhancements for future downtown development, identified pedestrian amenities and improvements and connected the Chewelah Walking Trail to downtown. The second study area was residential development in the downtown and the medium-density residential zoning district surrounding downtown within the subarea boundaries. The plan resulted in an action strategy that included new code provisions for the downtown area housing, alignment of the Chewelah Walking Trail, improvement of the Civic Center as the city hub, and transition space from the residential areas to the downtown main street.