LAKEWOOD – Comments are being sought by the city of Marysville for the Lakewood Neighborhood Master Plan.

The plan guides physical development over the next 20 years and focuses on the infrastructure and urban design aspects of the neighborhood.

The plan provides long-range guidelines for land use, building and parking placement on a site, architectural design, open space, landscaping, stormwater drainage, signage/way-finding, pedestrian circulation and utilities. It also focuses on transportation planning and traffic mitigation strategies to enable additional development within an already congested neighborhood and promote safe walking and bicycling.

More specifically, the plan looks at the area growing from 1,431 people in 2011 to 7,063 people by 2035. Housing would increase from 506 to 3,871.

Some of the developments include:

•“The Lodge,” which includes 182 units and a clubhouse in phase one and 160 more units and a fitness center in phase two.

•“The Market,” which includes Dick’s Sporting Goods, Party City, Hobby Lobby, Aveda, T-Mobile, Hop Jack’s, Qdoba Mexican Grill, Outback and Bonefish, and Firehouse Subs.

•”The Vintage at Lakewood,” which includes 197 affordable units of senior housing.

•A two-story Lakewood High School for 825 students.

•A Marysville Dental medical building.

Other aspects of the plan include:

•Improvements at 172nd, including the roundabout.

•Making the overcrossing at 156th a complete interchange.

•Building an under- or overcrossing at the railroad tracks at 172nd.

•Connecting townspeople to city water and sewer.

•Connecting neighborhoods with bike and walking paths to Twin Lakes, shopping, schools and parks.

•”Building on the existing character” of the town.

Check out the plan online at www.marysvillewa.gov/705/Lakewood-Subarea-Plan. A hard copy may be obtained at the Community Development Department, 80 Columbia Ave.

Comments should be directed to planning manager Chris Holland no later than May 16. Call 360-363-8207 or email cholland@marysvillewa.gov.

The plan for Lakewood, which is in the Marysville Urban Growth Area, expects to be adopted this summer. The Lakewood area in the plan is generally located north of 140th Street NE, and west of the BNSF train tracks.