Agenda Item # 2
Columbus Consolidated Government
Council Meeting
10/09/2018
Agenda Report # 34
TO: Mayor and Council
SUBJECT: 2038 Comprehensive Plan
INITIATED BY: Planning Department
Recommendation: Approval is requested that the 2028 Comprehensive Plan
be updated to reflect a new, modern Comprehensive Plan.
Background: For the past 14 months, the Planning Department has
developed a new comprehensive plan for our community. The Comprehensive Plan
is the community's vision for the future through descriptive text and maps, and
provides a plan to implement that vision. This plan is largely based upon the
input gathered from multiple public meetings, citizen and technical review
stakeholder meetings, surveys, websites, and other multiple involvement
channels. The goals of this plan are two-fold: 1) to create local excitement
about Columbus's future, engaging community members and encouraging them to
help move the Plan forward; and, 2) to provide Columbus leaders with a
"concise, user-friendly" document that is applicable to the day-to-day
decisions of the City.
Analysis: Per state law, Comprehensive Plans must be updated every 10
years and its Short Term Work Program (STWP) must be updated every 5 years.
Financial Considerations: There are numerous financial considerations that are
taken into account with a Comprehensive Plan (particularly the STWP), such as
capital expenditures, SPLOST projects, administrative funding, and so on.
Within the STWP. many of the completions listed in the Appendix 2 spreadsheet
were handled administratively via city staff and existing department budgets.
However, regardless of the funding, the STWP still needs to be programmed in as
funding situations may change. Several projects have been carried over to the
2019-2023 STWP.
Projected Annual Fiscal Impact Statement: N/A
Legal Considerations: The 2038 Comprehensive Plan is in accordance with state
law.
Recommendations/Actions: Approval is requested that the 2038 Comprehensive
Plan be approved for submission to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs
(see attached).
A RESOLUTION
NO.
WHEREAS, the Columbus Planning Department has completed the 2018-2038 Columbus
Comprehensive Plan; and,
WHEREAS, this document was prepared according to the Standards and procedures
for Local Comprehensive Planning as established by the Georgia Planning Act of
1989 and as amended by the 2012 updated minimum standards.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE COUNCIL OF COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, HEREBY RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
That the Columbus Consolidated Government does hereby adopt the 2018-2039
Columbus Comprehensive Plan.
Introduced at a regular meeting of the Council of Columbus, Georgia, held the
day of , 2018 and adopted at said
meeting by the affirmative vote of members of said Council.
Councilor Allen voting _____________.
Councilor Baker voting _____________.
Councilor Barnes voting _____________.
Councilor Davis voting _____________.
Councilor Garrett voting _____________.
Councilor House voting _____________.
Councilor Huff voting _____________.
Councilor Thomas voting _____________.
Councilor Turner Pugh voting _____________.
Councilor Woodson voting _____________.
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Lindsey Glisson, Deputy Clerk of Council Teresa Pike Tomlinson, Mayor
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