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Planning Commission <br />Staff Report <br />May 24, 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–Community Vision and Core <br />Values <br />DATE: <br />May 24, 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 provide general guidance, establishing <br />a flexible framework of community-based principles, policies and implementation strategies. The <br />Comprehensive Plan should integrate and align governing regulations, infrastructure, and <br />services with community values, needs and civic priorities. The Comprehensive Plan provides <br />everyone a voice in envisioning and guiding the City’s continual evolution through a manageable <br />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. <br />The 2012 Update will reaffirm and realign existing policies within the current Comprehensive <br />Plan with new policies that address challenges identified during the update process. This will <br />allow the Community to better visualize, communicate, and implement the City’s long-term <br />vision. <br />Staff is seeking a discussion, direction, and action from the Planning Commission regarding the <br />draft 2012 Comprehensive Plan’s Vision Statement and supporting Core Community Values. <br />