Why are the City and County Updating It?
One of the action items in the 1995 Steamboat Springs Area Community Plan calls for a five-year update to the plan. Moreover, the plan update is proposed to address recent issues, both within and outside the community, including the pace of growth over the past 10 years, economic changes, and regional and statewide initiatives such as growth management legislation. This updated Community Plan will incorporate goals, policies, and desires of Steamboat Springs and Routt County citizens.
Why We Need Your Input
The Steamboat Springs Area Community Plan is the community's plan for its future. If you live or own a business in the City or County, we want you to be involved in charting the future course for your community. We want you to tell us about the things you value and what should be protected. What changes or improvements would you like to see in the community? What opportunities should the community pursue? As this is your plan, we need your ideas and suggestions!
Community Plan Update Process
The City of Steamboat Springs and Routt County established an oversight group composed of City and County staff and other interest parties to help advise their respective elected bodies on planning issues that affect both the City and the County. This advisory group, the Area Plan Coordinating Committee or APCC, will be charged with designing the process and overseeing the plan update. The APCC began the plan update with a two-day community brainstorming meeting on November 9th and 10th. Over the two-day session, participants were asked to participate in one of the 10 working groups that will spent most of Saturday developing the goals or the scope for each of the plan components or elements. Consultant/s will be retained in early 2002 to collect and analyze data and help identify methods to address the respective element issues. The consultants will continue meeting with the working groups to develop alternative methods for achieving the element goals.
Community Plan Partnerships
The Steamboat Springs Area Community Plan update will be a collaborative process with the City, County, and the Orton Family Foundation. Orton Family Foundation, through its mission to promote citizen participation in the public planning process, is working in partnership with the Area Plan Coordinating Committee (APCC) in the update of the Steamboat Springs Community Area Plan. This collaboration will benefit the work of the APCC, the City of Steamboat Springs and Routt County, while honoring the Foundation's commitment to provide a Community Information System (CIS) that will reside in Centennial Hall.
The Foundation, through its partnership with Land Information Access Association (LIAA), will provide technological support to the Area Plan update process, to be conducted on November 9-10, 2001. This support will include digitized maps from the 1995 Plan and an interactive mapping capability to visualize the needs and desires of the community today. Using the CIS system as a platform will enhance public participation in the Area Plan update process and provide a launching pad for participation in the larger process of developing multimedia databases and digital maps on a touch screen system for the benefit of the entire community.
What will be included in the Community Plan?
Read more on the issues that need your input. . . The Community Plan will:- Establish the long-term vision for the community and provide strategies to accomplish the community's vision. It will illustrate how we see ourselves, how we relate to our surroundings and how we see the community's priorities;
- Develop baseline levels of service and capacities for all community facilities, services, and infrastructure to help plan for future needs;
- Determine the need, location, and policies to obtain new community facilities, including parks, trails, recreation, cultural, public buildings, etc;
- Survey existing resources and provide policies for protecting open space, scenic, and environmental resources; and
- Promote a balance of land uses so that City services can be augmented concurrently with new growth.
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