Welcome to Community Plan - Shape

Introduction

ShapeCheyenne, is the part of PlanCheyenne that establishes the guiding principles for how and where the community should grow in the future. Six chapters make up this part of the plan, including:

1. This Introduction to ShapeCheyenne, including how it relates to other parts of PlanCheyenne and the key land use concepts.


2. The Seven Community Foundations, containing the guiding principles and policies for the community.


3. The Land Use Plan, including the Future Land Use Plan map and text category descriptions.


4. Future Land Use Plan Capacity.


5. Coordinated Planning, highlighting where this Plan coordinates service areas, such as schools, utilities, transportation, and land use.


6. Comprehensive Plan Elements, including goals and policies and specific actions from the subarea plans that will carry forward with this comprehensive plan and other issue and policy plans.

ShapeCheyenne is One of Four Parts-PlanCheyenne (The Community Plan)

ShapeCheyenne is just one part of PlanCheyenne—a four part comprehensive plan that defines the Cheyenne area's future. As stated above, this part contains the future land use plan and foundations to guide the community's development in the future. Four Parts of PlanCheyenne The first component of the plan, SnapshotCheyenne, captured the existing conditions of the community.

The second component, the StructureCheyenne handbook, contains the Structure Plan map and design principles for the Cheyenne area—the form-giving and design-based part of the larger
planning effort. ShapeCheyenne refers to it occasionally. The Structure Plan booklet presents the Structure Plan and design principles for development in the public realm and for new development (i.e., of housing, employment, and commercial areas).

BuildCheyenne, which follows this section, provides implementation strategies and actions. Please reference the other parts of PlanCheyenne for a better understanding of the context of ShapeCheyenne. BuildCheyenne describes the strategies to carry out the policies in this part of PlanCheyenne. Types of implementation actions include:

• Programs (e.g., acquisitions, preservation, education, downtown redevelopment).


• Code revisions (new or revised zoning requirements, design standards or guidelines, incentives, overlay districts, subdivision requirements, conservation design approaches, clustered development, and others).


• Regional coordination (city/county IGAs, agreements with districts or other organizations, revenue sharing, partnerships, etc.).


• Coordinated actions with other plans/departments.


• New funding mechanisms.


• State legislation.


• Other strategies.

The Community-Driven Process

PlanCheyenne: A People's Plan

The PlanCheyenne is intended to be a "people's plan." To get to this point, the community had extensive public participation. To find out what directions our community wants to take, planners went straight to the best source—the public.

The Community-Defined Vision2020

Before PlanCheyenne began, the Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce supported a public process to create a master vision for the Cheyenne area. Vision 2020—the "living document"—reflects the community's input and directions for the future. It provides strategic direction and sets the foundation for updating the Cheyenne Area Development Plan (i.e., PlanCheyenne). The communitydefined Vision2020 states:

The Greater Cheyenne area has a proud past and a promising future. The future of the Cheyenne area builds on the historic strengths of the west, and looks to the possibilities that new jobs and new people bring. It is poised to become the northern anchor for the booming Front Range economy, and a complete community that attracts people because of its quality of life.

Furthermore, Vision2020 stresses the importance of our community's history, image, and quality of life to economic health and residents' well-being. Our authentic western town heritage is key to the community's identity and it is important to protect and enhance.



While staying firmly rooted in the best of the West, the Cheyenne area of the future will take advantage of new possibilities:

• A solid economy built on family-wage jobs and a vibrant business community.


• Excellent early childcare and a kindergarten through graduate education system that is attractive to new employers and families.


• Recognition, appreciation, and celebration of the diversity of people residing and working in the region.


• Growth that is guided to promote efficient use of public and private resources.


• A range of different housing and transportation choices.


• A network of neighborhoods with both common and different features, and a choice of services that address the needs of all residents.


• A community that provides opportunities for young families and encourages people to return and stay throughout their lives.


• Citizens who exhibit a can-do attitude, are proud of the image of their community and are active in assuring the well-being and safety of their neighbors.


• A vital downtown that includes unique businesses, a range of housing and attractive gathering places.

PlanCheyenne can help make the citizens' vision a reality by helping to define how to address and implement these ideas.