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For Immediate Release •
July 23, 2009
Staff Contact: Sandi Seader, Assistant to the City Manager, 303-651-8634
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JULY 23, 2009 - The City of Longmont is meeting or surpassing goals set in it's 2005 City-wide strategic plan according to a progress report developed earlier this year. The City-wide strategic plan, launched in January 2005, was designed to help Longmont City Council develop policies and make key decisions that shape our future.
The report card can be found at http://www.ci.longmont.co.us/focus/index.htm.
The plan, called Focus on Longmont: Share your vision, create our legacy, attempts to involve many of the people who live and work in the community in planning how Longmont can continue to be a great place to live both now and into the future. At the same time, it is important to involve the community in assuring that Longmont’s city government has enough money to pay for the services that will help make that unique and distinct community a reality.
Longmont is heading into a challenging time. The City’s planning boundaries are largely fixed as shown in the August 2003 revision of the Longmont Area Comprehensive Plan (LACP). And within the next 10-15 years the remaining areas planned for residential development will be built out within the planned city boundaries. Development of the industrial areas is anticipated to last longer, in the range of 40-50 years.
Whatever exists in the way of housing, commercial sites, agriculture, and open space will be fixed. City government will then have to provide residents with the services that are needed with taxes and other sources of revenue that is available within the city that is created.
Longmont City Council also believes that Longmont should remain a vibrant, free-standing community.
The Focus on Longmont plan was completed and accepted by the Longmont City Council in January 2006.
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