City Plan: A New Comprehensive Plan for Wheat Ridge

Let’s Create a City Plan!

Wheat Ridge is working on a City Plan, and we want to hear from you. The City Plan, which is often called a comprehensive plan, will articulate our community’s vision for the next 20 years, establish shared values, and identify priorities for the future. It also provides direction on issues such as what land uses should be where, how people get around, access to housing, and supporting the local economy. The City Plan will provide the framework for many decisions for years to come. Getting involved in this planning process and sharing your voice means shaping the future of Wheat Ridge.

How Can I Get Involved?

Thank you for participating in phase two! With over 140 attendees at the June 6th Open House and almost 400 survey responses, the project team is busy reviewing all of your input. That input will inform how the City Plan starts to take shape and what we'll bring back to the community for phase three.

We'll be back for phase three in September. In this next phase, the Wheat Ridge community is invited roll up their sleeves to discuss tradeoffs and how the core values, planning principles, and planning priorities will manifest around Wheat Ridge. What might local business support look like in places like Wheat Ridge’s Ward Road Station? Where might we want to connect commercial areas to parks and open space? How and where should we encourage small, compatible commercial areas embedded within neighborhoods? What land uses should we allow or encourage at the closed elementary school sites (Kullerstrand and Wilmore-Davis)? These are the kinds of questions we’ll be asking City Plan participants during phase three – the most hands-on phase yet!

The best way to get and stay involved is to subscribe for project updates

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What if I already participated in phase one (in April) or two (in June)?
Welcome back! The City Plan process will continue until spring 2025, and we want to hear from you again during each of the four engagement phases. Throughout the process, we’ll be discussing new topics and refining what we’ve heard from previous phases.

What if I missed phase one and two?
It’s never too late to join the conversation – new faces are welcome to get involved at any time.

Become a Neighborhood Champion

Already subscribed to project updates but want to do more? Consider becoming a Neighborhood Champion! This is a group of people who live, work, or have general interest in Wheat Ridge and who want to stay up to speed on the City Plan and (most importantly) help promote City Plan participation. Neighborhood Champions can share information with their networks and via City-provided yard signs and promotional items, and they provide relevant neighborhood feedback at various points throughout the process. Neighborhood Champions may devote however much time they desire and have available. This could include simply placing a sign in their yard, or it could involve actively promoting City Plan through their networks, participating in online engagement activities, and acting as the lead correspondent for their neighborhood. To become a Neighborhood Champion, fill out this sign-up form!