Project Overview

The City of Essex Junction is embarking on a comprehensive Community Vision and Strategic Action project for the City of Essex Junction, Vermont. The Community Vision will include transparent, deep and robust community engagement. This will lead into the Strategic Action Plan, which will help the City direct its efforts and resources towards defined priorities over the next five years.

The City of Essex Junction is located in Chittenden County, Vermont. The City is a forward -thinking, growing, high-quality of life small city in the Greater Burlington metropolitan area. With 4,500 residents in 4.6 square miles interlaced with sidewalks and residential streets, the City has a neighborly and family friendly atmosphere. In 2018, the Essex Junction Trustees and Essex Town Selectboard begun working on a plan to merge the Town of Essex and the Village of Essex Junction. In March 2021, Town voters, including some in the Village of Essex Junction, rejected the merger plan. In November 2021, the Village of Essex Junction passed a City Charter to separate from the Town of Essex and is now established as the independent City of Essex Junction.

The outcome of this process, running August 2023 through February 2024, will be to produce a robust, comprehensive and sustainable 5- year Community Vision and Strategic Action Plan for the City of Essex Junction.