Comprehensive (Comp) Plan Task Force/Vision
Brighton has a unique heritage to maintain while also accommodating the benefits of being in the metro area’s growth path. Brighton is unique among metro area communities as evidenced by our historic downtown. Brighton’s challenge is to separate itself from urban sprawl while promoting and accommodating quality development.
- Define what sustainable means to our community
- Identify emerging commercial trends that impact the comp plan
- Include Flexibility in the plan to adapt the plan
- Brighton as a community needs to establish its vision for what we want to be and ensure that the comp plan works as a pathway for achieving the vision
- Brighton’s comp plan needs to refine use allocations in the community that will help guide development
- Developers need a clear vision of what Brighton wants to become and mechanisms to ensure that they can help the vision become a reality while allowing for development to occur
- According to national sources, 70-80% of the deals in the market are looking for existing industrial and/or office space, Brighton needs to continue to look for ways to build its commercial (non-retail) inventory
- Testimony at public hearings related to the comp plan as needed
2007 Tactics
- Define what sustainability means to our community
- Actively participate with the city in completing the comp plan
- Ensure that the comp plan incorporates the concepts of a sustainable community i.e. live, work, learn and play
- Communicate the plan to current and potential developers
- Provide BEDC input regarding the appropriate mix of future land use allocations
- Identify emerging trends that impact the comp plan and encourage flexibility in the plan to adapt to changing market conditions
- Testify at public hearings related to the comp plan as needed