Planning Commission Meeting Date: October 10, 2024
To: Members of the Planning Commission
From: Jake Reilly, Community Development Director
Erin Perdu, AICP, Principal, Stantec
Title
Comprehensive Plan Update and Discussion
Body
Action Requested:
Review and discuss information associated with the development of the 2045-horizon Comprehensive Plan.
Summary Report:
The 2045-horizon Comprehensive Plan was initiated in October 2023 after a request for qualifications was issued. The plan is on-track to be adopted by the end of this year.
Monthly reports have been shared through Planning Commission meetings, Steering Committee meetings, the Comprehensive Plan website and meetings with multiple boards and commissions.
The steering committee and the Stantec/NEOO consultant team continue to work together to craft an engaging easy to read and implement document that honors past comprehensive planning efforts and incorporates relevant elements of the robust Climate Action Plan (2019).
Staff has also presented to relevant boards and commissions to ask for insights and incorporate those thoughts and goals into the document while the NEOO Partners engagement team focuses on conversations with residents - whether in their neighborhoods, at their jobs, or through focus groups with discrete populations with specific shared interests including K-12 students, the faith community, the disability community, the Latine population and many others. Staff has also worked to connect other critical planning documents such as the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and the shorter-term, Administration Department's five-year strategic plan efforts in those conversations and have presented those links to members of boards and commissions.
The rationale for the above being that the CIP implements the goals of a jurisdiction's comprehensive plan, by ensuring timely construction or renovation of infrastructure to provide the level of services identified in the comprehensive plan and...
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