The Forward SGF Comprehensive Plan provides an overview of goals and actions aimed at implementing the Plan’s vision. General guidance provided by the Plan should be paired with more targeted planning at a smaller area or neighborhood-level. A more refined planning process is needed to facilitate growth, development, and/or transportation and mobility needs in these targeted geographies. Goals and objectives created through neighborhood planning efforts should seek to align with the residential placetype recommendations included in the Forward SGF Land Use Plan. Each placetype illustrates unique characteristics common to their era of formation, street design, housing, and other physical characteristics.

The City has entered into a contract with a consulting firm to facilitate and draft an update to the Zoning and Development Code, which will provide the City with the regulatory framework essential to implement many of the recommendations outlined in the Comprehensive Plan that will impact expansion of uses and quality of place enhancements for (re)development projects.

Rountree Neighborhood Urban Conservation District

On June 4, 2023 City Council voted on making amendments to the Urban Conservation District in the Rountree Neighborhood that will pave the way for expansion of the neighborhood commercial hub at Pickwick and Cherry. The amendments will expand the district boundaries and support design standards to help ensure new development is compatible with the surrounding Rountree Neighborhood.

West Central Neighborhood Plan

The City has begun the development of a plan for the West Central Neighborhood which identifies several locations where neighborhood commercial hubs could evolve, along with similar uses along neighborhood edges.