Creating Our Future
The City Plan paints a vivid picture of where the community wants to go. That vision can be summarized in three goals that articulate what Wheat Ridge wants. Each of these goals include strategies to help us work towards those goals and specific actions that detail incremental steps to bring this plan to life.
Goal 1: Modern Infrastructure
The community’s demands for basic infrastructure functionality and quality-of-life capital investments are growing. The community understands that there is substantial catch-up work to be done on infrastructure from years past, and more keep-up work to be done in the future. The successful partnership between the community and city government is growing Wheat Ridge’s capacity to plan for, invest in, and sustain the quality and diversity of infrastructure the city needs.
Goal 2: Thoughtful Placemaking
Wheat Ridge is a place of places. Some of its places are considered important and special today, while others hold promise that they could evolve in that direction. Among our places are residential neighborhoods, corridor business districts, and parks and open space. Celebrating and positively shaping Wheat Ridge’s places means curating physical character through the proper application of tools in both private development projects and city investments in the public right-of-way.
Goal 3: Thriving Businesses and Neighborhoods
The community wants to have vibrant business and residential environments that complement each other. Neighborhoods are more livable when they offer access to amenities that residents want and need, including attractive retail options and local drinking and dining establishments. New housing accommodates additional residents who can become the new customers that local businesses need in order to thrive. At the same time, Wheat Ridge has been clear that new housing should be diverse in type and price point so the community can continue to appeal to a variety of different households.
Learn more about these goals and the strategies and actions that support them on pages 138-152 of the plan.
