Steven Spry
Long Range Planner

Long Range Planning directly involves the community in identifying goals with regard to quality of life for the foreseeable future, typically twenty years. It examines existing quantitative and qualitative aspects of the community such as housing, demographics, education, transportation infrastructure, public utility infrastructure, land use patterns, regulations governing land development, parks and open spaces, sense of community, and sense of place.  The long range plan, sometimes referred as a comprehensive plan because of the broad scope it encompasses, is guided by citizen input and projects the needs examined above into a coherent development strategy that is implemented through the policies, programs, regulations, or ordinances of the city.