Guiding Principles of Comprehensive City Planning:
1. Preserve the character of the community and promote
community identity at neighborhood and city wide levels.
2. Conserve open space.
3. Ensure that areas of new growth are coordinated with existing
and proposed
development. Prevent urban sprawl.
4. Maintain or improve the level of community services.
5. Develop a community with a diversity of housing types to
enable citizens from a wide range of economic levels to live
within city boundaries.
6. Plan ahead to avoid environmental problems.
7. Promote aesthetics and preserve historic and cultural
features.
8. Create a city wide network of streets, pedestrian paths and
bike paths.
Provide an adequate and accessible mass transit system.
9. Encourage flexibility and innovation in development
techniques to promote
diversity within the community and to slow the increase in
development costs.
10. Encourage citizen input.
11. Promote public safety.
Implementation guidelines:
a. Provide consistency in the plan implementation over time
and across
administrations.
b. Provide consistent rules and statutes to match the plan.
c. Put structures in place to consistently implement and update
the plan, including a schedule for evaluation and review.
d. Encourage regional collaboration.
e. Coordinate citywide and neighborhood issues.
f. Make land use decisions based on a current natural resources
inventory.
