FY2024 Proposed Budget

City of Iowa City Other Planning Processes

Comprehensive Plan/District Plans - The City of Iowa City Comprehensive Plan, titled Iowa City 2030, was adopted in the summer of 2013; it presents a vision for Iowa City, provides a strategy for realizing the vision and sets policies for the growth and development of specific geographic areas of the city. The Comprehensive Plan guides decisions on planning and development issues as they arise. The plan evolves as amendments are made. The plan divides the community into ten planning districts. Detailed plans will be conducted for each planning district to address the unique issues, features and goals of the different parts of the city. This process involves extensive citizen participation so that the people of Iowa City help determine the future of their community. Once adopted by the City Council, the district plans become part of the Iowa City Comprehensive Plan. Airport Strategic Plan - The Iowa City Municipal Airport exists to serve the general aviation needs of the greater Iowa City community. This strategic plan is to guide the direction of the Iowa City Municipal Airport and is updated every five years. Through implementation of the Iowa City Municipal Airport Master Plan and FAA Airport Layout Plan, facilities will be maintained and upgraded to comply with the latest safety features and FAA regulations. Fire Strategic Plan - The Iowa City Fire Department’s Strategic Plan sets forth a comprehensive vision and mission statement that provides the agency with a clear path into the future. Additionally, this strategic plan identifies the core values that embody how the agency’s members, individually and collectively, will carry out the agency’s mission. In the plan, the ICFD identifies its goals, objectives, and strategies that will allow the agency to realize its vision. Capital Improvement Plan – The five-year capital improvement program is developed and updated annually through a process involving all City departments in the collection and review of the capital improvement needs of the City. The plan reviews, plans, and prioritizes the capital replacement and capital expansion needs of the City in coordination with the City’s financial strengths. The first year of the City’s five-year capital improvement plan is integrated into the City’s financial plan in the Capital Projects Fund section. Climate Action and Adaptation Plan – The plan is intended to define the community’s climate challenges, and the challenges and opportunities it faces in meeting climate and GHG reduction goals; serve as a mechanism to tie together the City’s sustainability initiatives, strategies and plans with the community’s goals; establish a set of climate action strategies, implementation plans and metrics for measuring progress, lowering community-wide greenhouse emissions and activating and engaging residents, businesses and institutions with positive actions and tangible benefits; and analyze implementation strategies using Iowa City’s equity toolkit in order to ensure benefits for all members of the community.

Park Master Plan - The Iowa City Parks Master Plan is intended to help meet the needs of current and future residents by positioning Iowa City to build on the community’s unique parks

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