Strategic Planning Forum #2, May 19, 2004

Hayden Goals and Actions

• Maintain a friendly small community of neighborhoods where people recognize each other, share a sense of community and "family type" relationship.


• Create a community where people choose to live and work


• Create a community that grows from the inside out


• Retain the "working family" character of the town


• Strengthen the Town's identity by clearly defining the Town's boundaries


• Maintain and improve visual quality of town


• Define the extent of the Town with agicultural lands


• Retain the agricultural heritage of the Town


• Retain the scale of the Town


• Retain the community heritage of close ties between generations


• Create a critical mass of population in Town


• Expand public participation to a broader community including the local Hispanic community


• Create a community that is not congested and pedestrian safe resulting in reduced car dedendency within Town


• Centralize services to support a sense of community

• Create a commercial core that takes advantage of the Town central location and the existing volume of people using the airport and Hyw. 40


• Create a tax base which is a balance of residential and commercial uses


• Reduce sales tax leakage resulting from the proximity to Craig and Steamboat retail opportunities


• Reduce job leakage keep more people in Town and reduce traffic volumes on US 40

• Balance the affordability of new homes with design character


• Take advantage of the easy availability of land


• Retain affordable housing and lower cost of living


• Mitigate the impact on the cost of living as a result of proximity to Steamboat Resort

• Retain small schools that result in small classes , quality education and personal attention

• Retain the character of the Yampa river, public land and open space


• Protect wildlife and their habitat from impacts resulting from growth

• Clearly defined visual character of Hayden as a unique community


• Develop within the existing boundaries of the Town (infill development only)

• Improve the existing water treatment facility to increase the quantity of potable water


• Provide additional potable water storage tank capacity


• Improve/replace sewage line to reduce infiltration and increase line capacity to match capacity of treatment plant


• Improve/replace existing aging infrastructure

• Provide safe pedestrian crossing of US 40


• Create a pedestrian network in Town for safe access


• Provide improved access on to US 40 from streets within the Town


• Improve parking access along US 40


• Use existing rail lines for mass transit


• Provide for transit stops along US 40 in Town


• Increase capacity on US 40


• Reduce commercial traffic through Town

• Create a marketing strategy to promote the Town as a business location and to attract year round activities


• Take advantage of the location and accessibility of the Town


• Take better advantage of the existing facilities such as the County Fairground and speedway that bring people into Town


• Preserve and enhance the commercial core or town center


• Create a community meeting place/gathering place


• Increase the variety of businesses in Town


• Create a local hotel room base


• Take advantage of the stable job base (mine, power plant, airport)

• Provide diverse housing opportunities--price, single-family, multi-family, seniors, affordable


• Increase limited housing stock

• Improve School district physical plant to accommodate growth


• Educate the public on availability of new technology


• Provide central recreation facilities including a rec center, sports fields, etc.

• Expand recreation opportunities for youth programs


• Increase the critical mass of youths to allow for expanded programs


• Take advantage of the Town proximity to quality recreation including the ski--resort

• Market high quality local services such as the library, museum, emergency services, senior housing


• Match the number of Town administration staff and their office space to match growth needs


• Provide human services such as childcare, senior care, health care locally rather than down valley


• Provide opportunities for life-long learning


• Expand local news to can communicate beyond Hayden


• Mitigate the impact of Tabor/Gallagher on growth and services

• Limit public access to natural areas

• Develop land with low agricultural value


• Protect working agricultural land and water within the 3 mile boundary

Documents/Forms:
Hayden Goals and Objectives

Hayden Fiscal Impact of Residential Uses

Documents/Forms:
Fiscal Impact graph (39kb pdf)

Hayden Sales Tax Generating Revenue

Documents/Forms:
Hayden Sales Tax Generating Revenue (35kb pdf)

Hayden Comp Plan May 19, 2004 Public Meeting Report

Documents/Forms:
May 19, 2004 Public Meeting Report (44kb Word doc)
May 19, 2004 Public Meeting Report (81kb pdf)