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City's Master Plan Updates
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Summary and Background Information:
The purpose of this presentation is to provide background information on the City’s Master Plans and the project staff is seeking to undertake to update them.
The city is embarking on an update to the City's 2010 Comprehensive Plan, which will be a long-term plan for how the city will look in 2045. Since 2010, the City has continued to grow and community desires and priorities have evolved and changed. New and developing trends have emerged that were not contemplated in the prior plan and the current understanding of the traditional retail development market needs to be analyzed to create a proper balance moving forward.
A comprehensive plan is a vision of what the community wants to be. It is comprehensive in scope and topics including housing, economic development, land use, transportation, parks, etc. It is long range, usually contemplating a 20 - 30 year time horizon. A comprehensive plan is a policy document that guides implementing regulations and development approvals. It informs land use decisions, areas for reinvestment, and employment growth.
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. This Plan update is a project for a qualified and experienced consultant to analyze the existing comprehensive plan and propose updates and additions as warranted, with an integrated sustainability plan and strong implementation recommendations, for the entire current and future growth areas of Commerce City.
The update will also merge the comprehensive plan with the City Work Plan and follow up with the modernization of three, key, city-wide plans (Transportation Plan, Economic Development Strategic Plan and Parks, Recreation and Golf Master Plan). These plan update...
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