Cedar Falls leaders map out vision plan for 2020 - Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier |
| Cedar Falls leaders map out vision plan for 2020 - Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier Posted: CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --- A citywide strategic plan is nearly complete, and leaders vow it will guide the city rather than collect dust. The Cedar Falls 2020 Strategic Plan is in the final stages. Past versions of the vision plan rarely have been referenced between completion and the time to update the plans. This time around, Mayor Jon Crews thinks the plan will be more of a living document. The University of Northern Iowa's Institute for Decision Making was brought in to help the process. "It's better to have a plan than just hope for good things. We need something to aim for, to shoot at," Crews said. The strategic plan sets long-term goals for the community to achieve. They vary from quality-of-life issues to education, infrastructure and the economy. During the past two months, members of the strategic plan team have gone to various government boards and commissions to have those groups sign off on goals assigned to them. That hadn't been done in the past. Cedar Falls Utilities General Manager Jim Krieg has been involved with four of the last five strategic plans. This time he served as co-chair of the committee, along with Deon Senchina. He said for many of the organizations involved, the process allows them to mesh their own strategic plans with the overall plans for the community. "We were able to see the benefits over the years of having a plan in place," Krieg said. He said the strategic plan, typically updated every five years, has served the community well. He specifically cited the growth of the industrial park as benefiting from long-range planning. Some goals are pretty easily accomplished. For example, one of the goals is to establish a new industrial park in northern Cedar Falls. That park is under construction. Other goals will be difficult to complete. Crews said they refer to those as "stretch goals." For example, the plan calls for passenger rail service to the Cedar Valley, something that would require a dedicated push and millions of dollars from outside the Cedar Valley to come true. The plan also calls for multiple airlines to serve the Waterloo Regional Airport. For years the airport has been clinging to just one carrier. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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