By BECKY THOMAS
Staff Reporter
Choices for Cheney, the city's proposed comprehensive plan, will be the subject of the first of several public workshops on Sept. 30.
The workshop, running from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday in the Viking Room of Betz Elementary, is open to everyone interested in shaping Cheney's future.
“We're trying to establish some planning priorities,” community development director Brian Jennings said recently. Jennings is hoping for a big crowd at the workshop, which will focus on creating a vision for the future of the city over the next 20 years.
Jennings invited citizens as well as those who work or own businesses in Cheney to help draft a community profile and develop priorities for the city's future.
Cheney's current comprehensive plan was drafted in 1997, at a time when Jennings said “Cheney was very early in its growth.” He said the plan doesn't outline a vision for the future.
“It's been a challenge working with that plan,” he said.
Now he hopes people will get involved to make the new plan truly comprehensive.
“We'll try to align what's being accomplished in that workshop to have some end results in the plan,” he said. “This is an opportunity to provide input for what Cheney's going to be like in 20 years.”
More workshops are scheduled for the next several months, and Jennings said city officials are willing to speak to citizens one-on-one or in small groups at other times if they are unable to attend.
“We're trying to get the word out now,” he said, adding that the comprehensive plan web site, http://www.choicesforcheney.org, has more information.
To schedule a meeting with city staff regarding Choices for Cheney, call Jennings at 498-9240.
Becky Thomas can be reached at [email protected].
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