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Homestead forum: residents urge fixes for roads, more parks, jobs and a revived downtown
Summary
At a city-hosted strategic-plan forum, consultants and residents emphasized transportation and road maintenance, housing affordability, parks and recreation, downtown business growth, permitting reform and youth activities; staff will synthesize feedback into a draft strategic plan for later council review.
The City of Homestead held a community forum as part of its strategic-planning process to collect public input on priorities for the next five years. Consultants from BerryDunn presented demographic and livability data and led small‑group exercises; elected officials and staff closed by describing next steps for drafting the plan.
Residents and stakeholder groups repeatedly identified road maintenance and traffic as the most visible and urgent concern, saying local infrastructure is not keeping pace with rapid population growth. “The more individuals in your community, the more need for housing, the more need for your schools, right, the more need for infrastructure,” BerryDunn research analyst Bailey Dickinson said while presenting the community profile.
Why it matters: the forum’s outputs will inform an environmental scan and a draft strategic plan that city staff and council will review before the plan is finalized. Council and staff said they will use the compiled input to set priorities and performance measures for the next five years.
Top themes reported during the forum included…
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