Comprehensive (General) Plans

Comprehensive (General) Plans

City of Jerome. Idaho

J-U-B in collaboration with the City Planning and Zoning Department and the City Manager worked on updating the City of Jerome’s Comprehensive Plan to extend into 2040! J-U-B supported the City with all aspects of the plan initiation phase including evaluation of their existing conditions. The city received funding from the Blue Cross Foundation, to make Community Health a cornerstone of the planning process. J-U-B led numerous aspects of the public involvement approach including stakeholder interviews, a community advisory committee and two online surveys. The plan itself included all State Code required plan elements that address community concerns and outline goals, objectives, and strategies. In June 2023, the City Council unanimously adopted Welcome 2040: City of Jerome Comprehensive Plan.

Payette County, Idaho

J-U-B supported the Payette County Planning and Zoning Department to update the 2006 comprehensive plan. The update was completed in 2022; Future Focus: Payette County Comprehensive Plan serves as a 10-to-20-year guiding document. J-U-B lead a public involvement approach that relied heavily on remote and virtual techniques due to the Covid 19 pandemic, to support regular Advisory Committee meetings, which included developing agendas, PowerPoints and facilitation, designing three strategic Public Outreach Events and ultimately supporting a series of public adoption meetings and hearings. The plan was completed within budget and in a timely manner.

City of Richmond (General Plan), Utah

For the City of Richmond, Utah, J-U-B helped Richmond obtain $60,000 in Technical Planning Assistance grant funding from the Utah Department of Transportation to update the General Plan. As part of the planning process, J-U-B facilitated public involvement by planning and executing a kick-off meeting with elected officials and an open house with the community at large, distributing a community-wide online survey, a second stakeholder survey, and holding regular steering committee meetings to gather, analyze, and summarize information for the plan development. The updated General Plan included the development of land use goals, objectives, and action elements to move the community vision forward on issues including housing, transportation, land use, economic development, and water, in compliance with the newest requirements of Utah State Code.