Imagine Austin: Our Plan for the Future
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This document outlines Austin's comprehensive plan titled "Imagine Austin: Our plan for the future". The plan was created by the Lost Creek Civic Organization and the Planning and Zoning Department. It includes chapters on the need for a new comprehensive plan, trends and challenges facing Austin today, a vision for complete communities, and a growth concept map. It identifies 8 priority programs and over 200 actions and policies to implement the plan through regulations, spending, partnerships and other means. Implementation will be overseen by priority program teams and progress will be measured annually and used to adapt the plan.
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Imagine Austin: Our Plan for the Future
- 1. Imagine Austin: Our plan for the future Lost Creek Civic Organization Matt Dugan, Planning and Zoning Department January 2016
- 2. Outline Comprehensive Planning • Plan Organization • Priority Programs • Implementation
- 3. Chapter One The Roadmap and the Road Ahead • The need for a new comprehensive plan • Core principles for a sustainable future • Use these principles to realize the plan Chapter Two Experiencing Austin: Who Are We Today? • Trends • Challenges • Issues Plan Organization Based on Strategic Issues Report (2010)
- 4. Chapter Three Imagining Austin: Our Vision of a Complete Community • Vision statement • Complete communities Chapter Four Shaping Austin: Building the Complete Community • Growth concept map series • Building blocks and their policies Plan Organization Based on Plan Framework (2011) Endorsed by City Council (2010)
- 5. Chapter Five Implementation and Measuring Success • Priority Programs • Actions • Using Imagine Austin Planning Regulations and Zoning Spending Annexation Partnerships • Monitoring and Review Plan Organization
- 6. 266 pages (343 with appendices) 231 Actions 189 Policies 8 Priority Programs 1 Growth Concept Map 1 Vision By the Numbers
- 7. Complete Communities Throughout Austin Vision
- 8. Growth Concept Map • Promotes a compact and connected city • Preserve neighborhood character • Focuses new development in corridors and centers accessible by walking, bicycling, transit, and cars • Directs development away from environmentally sensitive areas 8
- 9. Regional centers Town centers Neighborhood centers Job centers Centers in environmentally sensitive areas Growth Concept Map: Centers
- 10. Regional centers Town centers Neighborhood centers Activity corridors Job centers Centers in environmentally sensitive areas Growth Concept Map: Corridors
- 11. Planning • Vision • Policies • Actions • Map Planning vs. Implementation Implementation • Spending (CIP) • Regulations (LDC) • Programs • Partnerships
- 12. Topic Group Priority Program Compact and Connected 1. Mobility 8. Regulations and Processes Thriving 5. Creative Economy 7. Healthy Austin Paths To Prosperity 3. Workforce 6. Household Affordability Nature Into City 2. Water 4. Green Infrastructure Priority Programs
- 13. Priority Programs Teams • Department lead(s) • Project manager / champion • Staff from multiple departments • Work program with short-term and ongoing steps • Report on progress for annual report Implementation
- 14. Levels of Implementation Community Engagement Regulatory Framework Capital Investments Organizational Alignment Partnerships
- 16. Community Engagement • Speaker Series • Newsletters • Social Media • MeetUp • Videos • Compact & Connected Training
- 19. Partnerships
- 20. The Road Ahead 1. Get to work 2. Act for the whole 3. Expand the growth- shaping toolkit 4. Measure progress and adapt Implementation