| What is a Comprehensive Plan? |
In Colorado, all municipalities are required to have a "comprehensive plan," also called a master plan. Louisville's Comp Plan is an extraordinarily important document. Its purpose is to capture and reflect the community's vision of the city. It provides guidelines and goals for population growth, residential and commercial development, open space, parks and trails, new streets, zoning, and other elements of a city's infrastructure. The city's 1989 Comp Plan led to the city's unique design: the city has a residential core surrounded by about 2,000 acres of open space, which serves both as natural space and as a buffer from neighboring communities. In 2003, StorageTek's developers proposed building more than 1,000 homes on land at the extreme southern edge of the city—beyond the city's residential core and past its open space. The proposal evoked alarm among citizens and led to the update of Louisville's Comp Plan. On August 16, 2005, the City Council voted to adopt a new Comp Plan, which many citizens believe is deeply flawed. |
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