Historic Preservation

The city’s comprehensive plan includes a section on historic preservation in its Renew strategy. The goals and objectives identify sensitive development and heritage tourism as approaches for improving the local historic preservation program. Figure 8.1.1 visualizes the city’s historic streets, districts, and sites.

Neighborhood Planning

The city’s comprehensive plan includes 18 district plans covering the extent of its jurisdiction. Each district plan includes land use and zoning recommendations, recommendations for areas that require multiple or significant interventions, and recommendations for capital investments.

Solar Energy

The Vision section of the plan references a poster contest where one of the emerging themes was reliance on alternative energy generated by solar panels (pg. 19).

A plan objective is to ensure that development regulations allow for solar energy production (5.1.3).

Tree Preservation and the Urban Forest 

The city’s comprehensive plan includes urban forestry policy recommendations. The Tree Cover section (7.3) of the Environmental Resources element calls for increasing average planting densities, utilizing vacant land as nurseries, maintaining a digital tree inventory, and supporting incentives to encourage private street tree planting. It also discusses permeable vs. impermeable surfaces and lists several benefits of tree planting.

Smart Cities

The city's comprehensive plan includes broadband infrastructure policy recommendations. The Broadband Infrastructure section of the Connect element recommends creating a long-term plan for the maintenance and use of city-owned broadband infrastructure, expanding access to affordable broadband, and encouraging technical innovation and recruitment of high-tech businesses (§5.2).