Process & Schedule
Phase 1: Set The Stage – Identify a community’s priorities for action by evaluating the area’s Equity Metrics which are essential to ensuring each community plays a role in creating an equitable city for all. Equity Metrics are defined by the Comprehensive Plan’s Equitable Growth Framework (EGF) as an area’s Access to Housing Opportunities, Job Opportunities, Essential Goods & Services, and Environmental Impacts.
Phase 2: Create Great Places – Ensure future development supports a community’s priorities by matching the new Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) zoning designations with recommendations for future growth as defined by Place Types (per the Charlotte Future 2040 Policy Map).
Phase 3: Support The Vision – Recommend projects and programs to support a community’s priorities. Potential projects may include needed infrastructure improvements as well as potential public/private partnerships. Program recommendations will identify the need for supporting city & county services.
Phase 4: Plan For Action – Develop an implementation strategy to address a community’s priorities. The implementation strategy will outline specific short- and long-term steps that can be taken by public and private entities bodies so the desired future in the plan may be realized.
Phase 5: Review & Adoption – Request for adoption of Community Area Plans by City Council..
Community Area Planning will begin in January 2023. The goal is to complete a draft plan for each geography within two years. The schedule below outlines the general timing for plan development and is intended to be executed in 2023 and 2024. For exact meeting dates please visit the Get Involved page.
