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Consultants present updated comprehensive‑plan findings: growth, sidewalks, and housing needs
Summary
Confluence Planning & Design and WSP briefed council and planning commissioners on the comprehensive plan update, highlighting steady population growth projections to about 95,000 by 2050, sidewalk conditions, crash hot spots, transit ridership recovery, and a projected need for roughly 9,000 new housing units by 2050.
Christopher Shires of Confluence Planning & Design and Jared Golbranson of WSP presented an existing‑conditions summary and public engagement plan for Iowa City's comprehensive plan update on May 6.
The consultants said Iowa City has had steady population growth in recent decades and projected a median scenario of roughly 95,000 residents by 2050 if current trends continue. Jared Golbranson summarized transportation analysis, pointing to annual average daily traffic peaks near the I‑80/Dodge area and pedestrian‑crash concentrations near the University of Iowa Hospitals and Burlington…
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