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City Council Meeting Minutes June 19, 2012 Page 17 of 20 Comprehensive Plan integrates and aligns regulations, infrastructure priorities, and government services with community values, needs and civic priorities. It provides everyone a voice in envisioning and guiding the City's continual evolution through a manageable 20-year window. Specifically, the Comprehensive Plan: • Illustrates a community-based vision. • Sets the Policy Framework (goals/objectives) for the vision. • Outlines implementation and ongoing monitoring of the vision through: Land Development Regulations; - Transportation Decisions; Infrastructure Needs; Capital Investments; Prioritization of Community Services; Regional coordination. The first important step of the 2012 Comprehensive Plan Update is updating the Community Vision Statement. The Vision Statement provides the aspiration, rationale and framework on which the community policies and objectives are presented in the Comprehensive Plan and ultimately should be adopted into regulation in the Louisville Municipal Code. The Vision Statement should provide a concise summary of the City of Louisville today and wishes to achieve in the future and should include: • Positive Present Tense Language • Qualities that provide a feeling for the City's uniqueness • Inclusiveness of the City's diverse population and their aspirations • A focus on people and quality of life • A stated time period The current Vision Statement in the Comprehensive Plan provides good words and phrases to describe the Community's aspirations; however, they seem poorly organized and lack cohesiveness. As a result of staff's outreach to the community, a revised vision statement was drafted. Planning Director Russ read the vision statement and went over the suggested core values and asked for a sense of direction from Council. He asked if the items were in tune with what Council wanted. Mayor Muckle called for public comment. PUBLIC COMMENT Tom Davinroy, 518 W. Sycamore Circle, Louisville, CO thought the order of values should be based on the citizen survey. Open Space and Community Safety were at the top of the list for citizens completing the survey. In general, he liked the ideas presented by staff.