Not anti-growth. Anti-poorly planned and executed growth.. Slipshod planning is the only "planning" I've seen out of the Olympia council in 25 years. That and outright handouts to developers.
No coherent plan at all. Random actions here and there and a hope and prayer they will somehow coalesce into car trip reduction. Olympia's public transit is poor, even in the areas considered "frequent service".
I'd suggest looking at Beaverton Oregon where an apartment building was permitted right next to the Willow Creek transit center. All the residents just parked their vehicles in the surrounding neighborhoods (and no, that is not an answer). Beaverton has far better transit availability in that area than anything Olympia dreams of.
I realize there is a current anti-parking fad based on Henry Grabar’s book, but without alternatives, which will take decades to develop, all you do is make people's lives more difficult. Turn a 15 minute drive to the doctor into a 2.5 hour public transit ride (what it would take for me personally if the appointment happened to be when transit is even running near my home) is a non-starter.
If we want to be like European cities (and I personally love public transit where I've visited in Europe) we can't just make car use difficult, we also need to make public transit attractive. Of course eliminating parking is cheap and easy, developing transit is expensive and hard. So Olympia council, as always, only does the cheap and easy thing.
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