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ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION

This city's comprehensive plan includes a substantial active transportation element, with non-motorized options included as part of its Citywide Visions and Policies (p. 2-52) and active transportation connectivity as part of its Action Plan (p. 5-6). The connectivity theme is carried throughout the plan.

Community Visioning

This city's comprehensive plan is based around a vision statement comprising seven themes. 

Chapter 2 of the plan lays out the seven themes: Environmental Stewardship; A Predictable Development Pattern; A Community of Stable Neighborhoods and Vibrant Mixed-Use Activity Centers; A Connected Community; A Community that Values its Culture, Education, Arts, and History;  A Strong, Diverse Economy; and A Healthy, Safe, and Caring Community. It also lists more than 30 corresponding guiding principles, and offers a table showing which comprehensive plan elements address each theme and its guiding principles.

Comprehensive Planning

This city's comprehensive plan from a rapidly growing city was the APA Idaho award winner for Outstanding Comprehensive Plan in 2012. The plan incorporates 11 subarea plans, each with its own set of policies, in addition to citywide policies organized around seven broad themes: environmental stewardship, predictable development pattern, stable neighborhoods and vibrant mixed-use activity centers, connected community, value of culture/education/arts/history, strong diverse economy, and safe/healthy/caring community.

Hazard Mitigation

The city’s comprehensive plan includes extensive hazard mitigation policy recommendations.  

Protecting life and property from natural hazards is the first principle of the plan’s Safe, Healthy, and Caring Community theme (SHCC). Goals under this principle address minimizing wildfire risk (SHCC1), accounting for known geologic and seismic risks (SHCC2), minimizing flood risks (SHCC3), disaster response (SHCC4), fire protection (SHCC6), emergency medical services (SHCC7), hazardous materials exposure (SHCC8). Each goal includes multiple policy statements. 

The plan also includes maps of flood hazard areas and the wildland-urban interface.

Neighborhood Planning

This city’s comprehensive plan includes 11 subarea plans covering the extent of its jurisdiction (Chapter 4). Each of these subarea plans includes a brief description of the plan area and a set of area-specific goals and policies.