City Council Meeting Date: May 6, 2025
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Jake Reilly, Community Development Director
Mikayla Schmidt, City Planner
Title
Consideration of the Comprehensive Plan 2045 Adoption.
Body
Action Requested:
The Northfield City Council is asked to review, discuss and adopt the Comprehensive Plan 2045.
Summary Report:
Included for your review is a complete formatted version of the printable plan. The Planning Commission unanimously recommended adoption of Northfield 2045, the city's 20-year horizon comprehensive planning and policy document at its April 17, 2025, regular meeting. An interactive map website is available to view alongside the printable document.
The printable document will be complemented by an online, accessible, searchable version. That version can be translated through a web browser's internal translation feature and is intended to be the official version, along with the interactive maps. A four-page graphical summary document of the plan is being developed in order to have a user-friendly and fun mechanism to introduce the community to the policies and desired outcomes of the 20-year visionary document.
Background
Highlights of this plan include:
* A robust engagement process in both English and Spanish using pop-up meetings, online and in-person surveys, focus groups, and targeted engagement with different employee groups, non-profit groups, students and youth, the disability community, the faith community, boards and commissions, the business community, and many others.
* Uniting land use and transportation planning in an "Access" chapter designed to place a renewed focus on the safety of all roadway users and to guide initiatives toward connecting people to the places where they need to go; and
* Uniting housing and economic development policies and planning in an "Sustainable Economic Future" chapter to place a renewed focus on compact development and redevelopment opportunities and the natural connect...
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