Table of Contents

Capital Improvements Programming

The city’s comprehensive plan includes a public infrastructure element. This element explains the relationship between the comprehensive plan and the capital improvements program and includes policy recommendations to guide capital planning.

Comprehensive Planning

This city's comprehensive plan, developed through a 19-month planning process and adopted in 2016, achieved Silver-level recognition in APA's Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places Recognition Program Pilot in 2016. PlanDSM is a concise and visually appealing plan, which provides a clear, values-based vision for Des Moines in 2040. It begins with an 11-point vision statement and contains nine topical elements as outlined by state planning statute — Land Use, Transportation, Housing, Economic Development, Public Infrastructure and Utilities, Parks and Recreation, Community Character and Neighborhoods, Community Facilities, and Social Equity — and an implementation chapter that identifies ongoing, near-term, and intermediate priority actions and calls for annual progress reviews.