Community Invited to Review Strategic Goals in New IK2035 Survey
Published on October 28, 2024
The City of Kalamazoo is inviting all community members to participate in shaping the city’s future by providing feedback on its current strategic goals. A new survey is now open, inviting the community to review and provide feedback on strategic goals from the previous Strategic Vision, with a focus on improving and updating them for the next 10 years.
The Strategic Goal Survey is available at www.kalamazoocity.org/GoalSurvey.
This survey is part of the city’s Imagine Kalamazoo 2035 planning process to develop a new Strategic Vision and Master Plan. It is part of the “Imagine It!” phase, the first phase of the planning process where City staff are asking for the broadest, highest-level feedback from the community.
Both the Strategic Goal Survey and the Imagine It! Survey are available now, providing residents with two meaningful opportunities to offer their input. The Imagine It! Survey asks residents to reflect on the last 10 years, identifying both improvements and ongoing challenges in the community. Additionally, community members can engage by participating in a "Meeting on the Go", using a meeting toolkit to host an informal discussion with friends, family, or social groups about the city's future. Another way to join the conversation is through Imagine Kalamazoo Reads, a community reading of Happy City by Charles Montgomery to explore how Kalamazoo's Master Plan and Strategic Vision can promote happiness and well-being.
The “Imagine It!” Phase is scheduled to conclude in December and City staff will provide a report at the end of each phase. The “Plan It!” phase will start in January, focusing more specifically on what we want to achieve as a city for each goal area.
The City of Kalamazoo is committed to ensuring that the Strategic Vision and Master Plan reflect the community’s vision and priorities. To participate in the surveys and explore other ways to get involved, visit www.kalamazoocity.org/IK2035.
About Imagine Kalamazoo 2035
Imagine Kalamazoo 2035 is a community planning process to create a new Strategic Vision and Master Plan for the City of Kalamazoo. Over the next year, City staff will work with community members to identify strategic goals for the next 10 years and chart a course to achieve them. Imagine Kalamazoo 2035 officially started in September and be completed in five increasingly focused phases, with the adoption of the new Master Plan and Strategic Vision expected in late 2025. The city’s previous master plan, Imagine Kalamazoo 2025, was adopted in 2017. In the time since, 99% of actions contained within the plan have been completed or are currently in progress.