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Planning Commission <br />Staff Report <br />March 22, 2012 <br />TO: <br />Planning Commission <br />FROM: <br />Louisville Department of Planning and Building Safety <br />Troy Russ, AICP and Gavin McMillan, AICP <br />ITEM: <br />2012 Comprehensive Plan Update <br />DATE: <br />March 2, 2012 <br />SUMMARY <br />The Planning Division is leading a City-wide effort to update the Louisville Comprehensive Plan. <br />The Comprehensive Plan is a significant tool intended to integrate and align governing <br />regulations, infrastructure, and services with community values, needs and civic priorities. The <br />Comprehensive Plan provides everyone a voice in envisioning and guiding the City’s continual <br />evolution through a manageable 20-year window. Specifically, the Comprehensive Plan: <br />• Illustrates a community-based vision. <br />• Sets the Policy Framework (goals/objectives) for functioning of the vision. <br />• Outlines implementation and ongoing monitoring of the vision: <br />- Land Development Regulations; <br />- Transportation Decisions; <br />- Infrastructure Needs <br />- Capital Investments; <br />- Prioritization of Community Services <br />- Regional coordination and ongoing decision-making. <br />Updating the Comprehensive Plan is always a significant effort of Staff, the Community, the <br />Planning Commission, and City Council. The intent of this 2012 Comprehensive Plan Update is <br />to build upon and strengthen the vision established in 2005, and updated in 2009, by utilizing an <br />interactive community outreach effort. The 2012 Update will reaffirm and realign existing <br />policies within the current Comprehensive plan with new policies that address challenges <br />identified during the update process. This will allow the Community to better visualize, <br />communicate, and implement the City’s long-term vision. <br />The City’s first Comprehensive Plan was adopted in 1973. That plan was updated in 1975. Since <br />then, new Comprehensive Plans were adopted in 1983, updated in 1989, and then adopted <br />again in 2005 and updated in 2009. <br />Staff believes that a 2012 Update can further strengthen the Comprehensive Plan in three key <br />ways: <br />1) <br />Better meet today’s unique challenges that were not factors in 2005 and 2009 Several <br />conditions which influence the City’s ability to implement the Community’sVision have <br />changed, or emerged, including: <br />a.Redevelopment vs. new development – The General Development Plan (GDP) approval <br />for ConocoPhillips and the Planned Unit Development (PUD) approval of North End and <br />