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Thornton leaders coalesce around development, transit, housing and community programming as strategic focus areas
Summary
At a multi-day strategic planning session staff and council grouped hundreds of ideas into six priority “focus areas” — including destination development, safe transit, walkable communities, community programming, infrastructure and housing — and asked staff to fold the results into a draft strategic plan for further council review.
At a strategic planning session convening Thornton City council and staff, members identified a short list of priority "focus areas" to guide the city's next strategic plan and the staff work that will follow.
In a facilitated exercise, council members placed six consensus “rocks” — the planning term used for large, long-lived priorities — at the top of their list: destination (commercial) development, safe and connected transit/transportation, walkable communities, community programming, infrastructure and facilities, and housing (including housing services and development). Facilitators said the voting was intended to show where energy currently exists, not to adopt final policy.
Lauren (facilitator) told the group, “These are the big things we want to make sure we put energy towards, we put resources towards first,” framing the exercise as a way to prioritize where staff should concentrate analysis and recommendations.
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