Comprehensive Planning

This city's comprehensive plan, which received APA's 2017 Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan, was adopted in 2015 and achieved Silver-level recognition in APA's Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places Recognition Program Pilot in 2016. This web-based, interactive plan is extremely innovative, with visuals and infographics that make it very easy for the public to understand and polls that allow residents to rank their policy priorities. The plan is based on five pillars with 10 components:

• Built Environment (land use & community design, transportation, housing & neighborhoods)
• Social Environment (quality of life, sense of community)
• Natural Environment (building & site efficiency, environmental quality)
• Economic Environment (diverse & resilient economy, jobs & workforce development)
• Regionalism (our place in the region).

The plan implementation strategy is based on delivery of city services, the budget review process, development review conformance, and a community investment program, with annual reporting to track progress.