Jasper Comprehensive Plan Project (2025-2026)

Future iQ / Jasper Comprehensive Plan Project (2025-2026)

Jasper Comprehensive Plan Project (2025-2026)

Comprehensive planning for the City of Jasper, Indiana

Project Overview

The City of Jasper is a vibrant community of 16,967 (2024) residents located in the southwestern corner of Indiana along the Patoka River. As the county seat of Dubois County, the City was founded in 1818, and celebrates its rich German history through events such as its annual mid-summer festival Strassenfest. Jasper is also known for its furniture industry and its abundant agricultural lands.

The City of Jasper has embarked on a comprehensive planning process that will update its 2019 Comprehensive Plan. The Plan will serve as a basis for modifications to land use and planning regulations, public and private investment decisions, prioritization for the allocation of City resources, and incorporate smart growth principles to encourage the efficient use of resources. The City anticipates the new Plan will express a progressive vision that promotes thoughtful, managed growth and development, promotes the health, safety and welfare of the community and continues to position Jasper as a regional hub of economic and social activity.

Future iQ, in partnership with WGI and Jon Stover and Associates (JS&A) have been contracted to develop the Comprehensive Plan over an 14-month period. The process will result in an updated Community Vision and Comprehensive 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 Profile 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, Community Survey, a 2-session scenario-planning Think-Tank Workshop, Community Visioning Sessions, Future Summit, Discussion Boards, and a Public Open House.
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 project newsletters and reports.
Task Force Groups will be created to develop the chapters of the Comprehensive 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 StoryMaps and the Future Land Use Map.
The final deliverables for will be the production of Community Profile Report, a Think-Tank Report, and a Future Summit Report, a Future Land Use Map, StoryMap(s) , an Implementation Matrix and a 2026 Comprehensive Plan Report.