Greenwood Comprehensive Master Plan Project (2024-2025)

Future iQ / Greenwood Comprehensive Master Plan Project (2024-2025)

Greenwood Comprehensive Master Plan Project (2024-2025)

Comprehensive planning for the City of Greenwood, Missouri

Project Overview

The City of Greenwood is a vibrant community of 6,123 residents located approximately 20 miles South and East of Kansas City, Missouri in Jackson County. It is said that the name of Greenwood was selected because of the beautiful elm trees in the area, and the City’s logo incorporates the tree into its branding.

The City of Greenwood has embarked on a visioning and planning project that will update the City’s 2008 Comprehensive Plan. This update will begin with the creation of a community vision for Greenwood. The community vision will set the stage and provide the foundational strategic pillars of the Comprehensive Master Plan. Public involvement and input will be critical components of the comprehensive plan update process and community members will be provided a broad range of in-person and online opportunities to engage with this project. Throughout this planning process, citizens and community partners will be asked to join with the City to identify priorities and establish a list of goals and action steps for implementation. This year-long project will result in a comprehensive plan that provides guidance for decision-making for the next 10 years.

Future iQ, in partnership with WGI and Jon Stover and Associates (JS&A) have been contracted to develop the Comprehensive Master Plan over an 12-month period. The process will result in an updated Community Vision and Comprehensive Master Plan that will guide the community’s decision-making for the next ten years.

Future iQ^®'s Role in this Project

Significant background research and data-collection will occur to produce a Community Snapshot Report that will be used as reference throughout the visioning and planning process.
Public engagement and outreach will be foundational elements of this project. The project team will engage community members and stakeholders with initial interviews, surveys, a scenario-planning Think-Tank Workshop, Community Visioning sessions, Future Summit, and Discussion Boards.
Future iQ, WGI, and JS&A will meet with City staff on a weekly basis. The project team will also meet with the Steering Committee on a monthly basis for the duration of the project.
Future iQ is producing a project portal/website which will be the go-to place to sign up for project events, learn of project updates, interact with survey data visualization, and read newsletters and reports.
Task Force Groups will be created to develop the chapters of the Comprehensive Master Plan. The project team will facilitate regular meetings to develop the draft chapters and recommendations.
To visualize the Comprehensive Master Plan, the project team will create StoryMap(s) , a Zoning Map and the Future Land Use Map.
The final deliverables for will be the production of Community Snapshot Report, a Think-Tank Report, and a Community Vision Report, a the Future Land Use Map, a Zoning Map, StoryMap(s) , an Implementation Matrix and a Comprehensive Master Plan Report.