The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My Public Portal About20160216 Public Meeting Goal Prioritization.pdfCOMPREHENSIVE PLAN GOALS PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS • Traditional Neighborhoods: Encourage traditional neighborhood development with human scale, compact development patterns that facilitate pedestrian activity • Infill Development: Maximize existing infrastructure and encourage development and redevelopment near the traditional urban core • Sense of Place: Maintain traditional activity areas as the community focal point and develop new activity centers/focal points with mixed use, pedestrian friendly areas where people choose to gather COMMUNITY PRESERVATION • Heritage: Maintain and preserve the traditional community character through revitalization and compatible new development • Open Space: Minimize land consumption in new development and set aside open space for parks, greenbelts and wildlife corridors • Environmental: Protect sensitive areas from negative development impacts, particularly maintaining traditional character and quality of life and preserving natural terrain, drainage and vegetation ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT • Appropriate Businesses: Encourage businesses suitable for the community and long-term sustainability and that support economic activities and future prospects for job opportunities • Employment Options: Promote a range of job types to meet the diverse needs of the local workforce COMMUNITY • Transportation Alternatives: Provide and encourage the use of transportation alternatives, including transit, bike and pedestrian facilities • Housing Choices: Ensure a range of housing sizes, costs and density to make it possible for all who work in the community to live in the community • Educational Opportunities: Educational and training opportunities should be readily available in the community • Regional Identity: Promote and preserve the regional sense of place defined through shared regional characteristics • Growth Preparedness: Identify and adopt pre-requisites for achieving the desired types of growth, such as supporting infrastructure for development INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION • Local Self-Determination: Communities should develop and achieve their own vision with state technical and financial support • Regional Cooperation: Regional cooperation should be encouraged in setting priorities, identifying needs and finding collaborative solutions to address those needs Additional Comments: Promote Historic Preservation; Focus goals on growth management, rather than on growth and development. TYBEE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE: GOAL PRIORITIES Public Meeting Results: February 16, 2016 Participants in the meeting reviewed the goals (Quality Community Objectives) from the previous plan. The full circles represent those goals identified by the majority of the participants as high priorities.