Comprehensive Plan - Wyoming 2030

A Comprehensive Plan is an extension of the community's vision for future growth and development. It is also a strategic road map to reach that goal. Comprehensive planning is an important tool to guide future development of land to ensure a safe, pleasant, and economically viable environment for residential, commercial, industrial, and public activities.

 

Current Plan

Wyoming's current Comprehensive Plan was adopted on December 20, 2022. This plan updated the previous one that was done in 2009; shortly after the Township and the City merged in 2008.

 

Process

The comprehensive planning process helps to:

  • Protect important resources, agricultural, and other open lands
  • Create the opportunity for residents to participate in guiding a community's future
  • Identify issues, stay ahead of trends, and accommodate change
  • Ensure that growth makes communities better; not just bigger
  • Foster sustainable economic development
  • Provide an opportunity to consider future implications of today’s decisions
  • Protect property rights and values
  • Enable other public and private agencies to plan their activities in harmony with City plans

 

As a result, the Comprehensive Plan lays out a vision for future development and land use. It dictates where growth should occur, the type of growth that is allowed in various areas of the City, and the density of such growth. The plan should also establish the following:

  • Public facilities plan (water and sewer)
  • Thoroughfare or transportation plan
  • Parks and open space plan
  • Capital Improvement Plan

 

After Adoption

Once adopted, the plan guides local officials in making their day-to-day decisions and becomes a factor in their decision process. Comprehensive Plans assist the City in articulating the basis for zoning decisions, providing legal support to ensure that zoning ordinances are reasonable and have a rational basis.

 

Implementing the Plan

Once a Comprehensive Plan is adopted, the Planning Commission is tasked to study and propose to the City Council a reasonable and practicable means for putting the plan or sections of the plan into effect. Reasonable and practicable means for putting the plan into effect, include:

  • Zoning regulations
  • Subdivision regulations
  • A program for coordination of the normal public improvements and services
  • A program for development and redevelopment
  • A capital improvement program
  • An official map.