Long Range Planning
Long Range Planning is responsible for developing plans, policies, and programs designed to guide the physical design and development of the City of Greeley. The division works with local residents, neighborhood and business groups, developers, local jurisdictions, and other community stakeholders to provide a quality of life that is responsive to all.
Adequate Public Facilities
To provide for the public health, safety and welfare, it is essential that development occur only when adequate municipal or public facilities and services are available or will be available concurrent with development or are funded in the most current two-year City budget cycle. This map provides general information on areas accessible to major streets that are improved to City Standards.
Transportation facilities to support new development are considered adequate if the proposed development is connected to a collector or arterial road or expressway constructed to an acceptable cross-section with sufficient capacity to serve the development as defined by the City. Project-specific traffic studies to be provided by the developer and accepted by the City shall be required in order to make a final adequacy determination. Proposed developments must also be consistent with adopted City documents.
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Neighborhood and Sub-Area Studies
Neighborhoods area fundamental building block of Greeley's community. Neighborhood/Area Plans and Studies are intended to provide a means for neighborhoods to identify, preserve, and enhance the positive qualities of neighborhoods; to acknowledge and address existing issues or problems; and to set goals and priorities that will shape the future of the neighborhood. Planning allows a community to become proactive in response to neighborhood issues and invites the diverse interests within a neighborhood to come together for the purpose of developing a shared vision.
The Imagine Greeley Comprehensive Plan is the community's guiding document on planning and policy direction for advancing the community's vision in each plan element, yet, because the Comprehensive Plan is very high level in scope, detailed planning and policy direction is supported by smaller neighborhood/sub-area plans and studies such as the Parks, Trails, and Open Lands Master Plan, the Bicycle Master Plan, Transit Strategic Plan, or the Transportation Master Plan. Each align with the community's vision, as expressed throughout the Comprehensive Plan.
Annual Growth and Development Projections Report
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Imagine Greeley Comprehensive Plan
Founded on the principles of “temperance, religion, education, agriculture, irrigation, cooperation, and family values,” the original Union Colonists envisioned a “utopian” community on the high plains of northern Colorado. One hundred-forty years later, contemporary residents again imagine a remarkable future for Greeley, articulated in this 20-year planning document.
The City of Greeley Comprehensive Plan becomes the fifth master plan formally adopted by the City Council beyond the original plan for the community in 1869. This update of the City’s comprehensive plan focused on targeted updates to help the City and community better address important issues and opportunities that emerged since the prior plan’s adoption in 2009. Community input during the development of this Comprehensive Plan was gathered through a public outreach process called Imagine Greeley. It includes two distinct, but inter-related efforts:
- An update to the City’s 2060 Comprehensive Plan; and
- Identification of priority community improvements.
Imagine Greeley includes a Vision Statement, 12 Core Values, Goals and Objectives for ten plan elements, a Growth Framework, and an Action Plan describing the responsibilities and timing of recommended actions to meet the Goals and Objectives.
Imagine Greeley, an update of the City of Greeley 2060 Comprehensive Plan becomes the fifth master plan formally adopted by the City Council on February 6, 2018 beyond the original settlement of the community.
The Plan
Informed by data, trends, current conditions, and community input, this Plan serves as a roadmap that will guide City policies and decision-making towards the community’s shared vision for the future. The vision (see Chapter 2) is interwoven throughout the Plan and forms the basis for its goals, objectives, and implementation actions. Together these components seek to answer the following questions:
- What is our desired future?
- What are our shared values as a community?
- What are the ideals we are striving for?
- What specific outcomes are we seeking to achieve through day-to-day decision making?
- What specific steps will we need to take to accomplish these?
Achieving the Plan’s vision will require an ongoing and long-term commitment on the part of City staff, elected and appointed officials, and members of the community. At the same time, this Plan acknowledges that the vision, core values, goals, objectives, and implementation actions may need to change in the future in order to address new issues or take advantage of new opportunities that were unforeseen when the Plan was first adopted.
Greeley is a great city; together we can make it even better!
Read the plan in its entirety or download and read the chapters separately.
- Chapter 1 - Introduction PDF, 8.14 MB
- Chapter 2 - Vision and Core Values PDF, 950.84 KB
- Chapter 3 - Goals and Objectives PDF, 23.04 MB
- Chapter 4 - Growth Framework PDF, 7.79 MB
- Chapter 5 - Action Plan PDF, 3.58 MB
- Appendix-A Background Material PDF, 16.39 MB
- Appendix-B MapAtlas PDF, 35.27 MB
- Appendix-C PDF, 1.44 MB
- Appendix-D PDF, 21.76 MB
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1100 10th Street
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Greeley, CO 80631
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