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Comprehensive Plan Update
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Summary and Background Information:
To ensure the City’s Comprehensive Plan continues to be a useful policy document that represents the vision and collective desires of the community, the city is pursuing a comprehensive update to the plan to respond to changing conditions and community values.
As a part of the update process, staff will be providing updates to City Council, alternating in-person and written correspondence.
For Step 1: Project Initiation, staff conducted the following outreach initiatives:
• Staff Working Group Meeting
• Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting
• Elected and Appointed Officials Roundtable
For Step 2: Community Engagement, staff conducted the following outreach initiatives:
• Community Engagement Workshop (4)
• Pop-Up Engagement (2)
• Key Person Interviews (11)
For the month of May:
• Staff and the hired consultant for the Comprehensive Plan update, Houseal Lavigne are wrapping up Step 4: Existing Conditions Analysis. An Issues & Opportunities Report (IOR) has been provided and is being reviewed by the Citizen’s Advisory Committee (CAC) and the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), in addition to staff.
• Business Workshops have been conducted, 1 in Spanish, 1 in English in order to receive feedback on the Comprehensive Plan from the business community. Feedback from the business community will be used in the plan update.
• The Community survey and mapping tool is still available for an easy way to give input to the Comprehensive Plan.
• DIY Workshop Kits are now available for anyone to plan a workshop with other passionate citizens, friends, colleagues, or family to receive feedback on the future development of the City...
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