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Homewood launches comprehensive-plan update; consultants ask residents to shape a 20-year vision
Summary
City Manager Kyle Smith and consultant teams opened a public workshop to begin updating Homewood's comprehensive plan, emphasizing community input, data analysis and a 20-year growth-and-conservation map. No decisions were made; next steps include ward meetings, a public draft and an all-day station tomorrow.
Homewood officials and their consultants formally launched an update to the city's comprehensive plan at a public workshop where they sought residents' input on growth, transportation, housing and redevelopment.
Kyle Smith, the city manager for Homewood, introduced the consulting team and thanked attendees for coming. "This means a lot to the city," he said, and emphasized the meeting was the start of a process, not a decision: "Nothing has been decided. We're at the very beginning of this process," Brian Wright, principal of Town Planning and Urban Design Collaborative (TPUDC), told the room.
The consultants described the planning framework as three linked "buckets": community input (events, surveys, mapping exercises), data analysis (demographics, building permits, market trends) and best practices (examples from other cities). "This is your chance to put your fingerprints on the planning process," Matt…
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