Get Involved and Plan Your Community

May 5-13th at various locations.
Visit http://www.planyourcommunity.org

Allen County and the City of Fort Wayne are embarking on a historic partnership to develop the first Allen County / Fort Wayne Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Plan lays out the 'vision' for the future growth and development of the community; what the community will be like and look like in the future; it then serves as a guide for community decisions, and provides policy and program guidance to promote the community's vision. To do this we need your ideas! The Comprehensive Plan Community Meeting dates have been set for May 5-13, 2004. http://www.planyourcommunity.org/calendar.asp . Attend a meeting or submit your comments on our website.

Several issues that Comprehensive Plan will address:

• Establish a community vision created through community consensus, and capture the values, goals, and objectives of the community


• Create an up to date policy guide for encouraging quality physical and economic development in the community; prepare the community for the changes that the future will bring; preserve the community's character; improve the community-s quality of life; and encourage actions that will be in the long-term best interests of the community


• Introduce current innovative planning, development, and growth concepts to the community


• Encourage the efficient use of public resources by coordinating development and future public capital expenditures, encouraging balanced growth in areas where adequate infrastructure exists, and saving future public expenditures to "fix" poorly planned or installed development


• Generate new strategies, new alternatives, and new solutions to address community problems, weaknesses, and issues; and build on the community's strengths to maintain the economic vitality of the community


• Provide a strong legal basis for sound land use decisions

Posted by Admin at April 26, 2004 04:58 PM