LAYING THE GROUNDWORK

“Rochester is a beautiful, progressive, lively, healthy, and welcoming city. We build from strength – leveraging our assets to grow our population, local business community, and tax base. We celebrate our 200th birthday in 2034 as a resilient and confident community where diverse neighborhoods are engaged and thriving; downtown is the vibrant heart of our region; our unique network of active waterfronts is accessible to all; and innovation, adaptation, and inclusion drive us forward.”

-The People of Rochester

What is a Comprehensive Plan?

Fundamentally, a comprehensive plan is a means to promote and protect the general health, safety, and welfare of the people in a community and to lay out a course of action for the future physical and social development of that community. Click the button to learn more.

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Policy Principles

These principles are the basis for our decision-making and guide our policy development. They are broad, overarching themes that we want our policies to achieve.

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  • Healthy Living
  • Equity
  • Resilience
  • Prosperity
  • Partnership

Placemaking Principles

The design of our surroundings is intimately related to how we experience, interact with, and feel about places. Thoughtful design is important to creating places where people want to be. These principles are intended to cultivate a strong and unique sense of place for the City of Rochester, and to make it a place where people want to live, work and play.

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See also The Placemaking Plan for more detail (link)
  • Design at the Pedestrian Scale
  • Create Beautiful Spaces
  • Provide Diverse Housing Options
  • Celebrate Assets
  • Strengthen Multi-Modal Travel
  • Focus Growth

Community Engagement

Community engagement is vital to crafting an effective and responsive long-range plan.
Click on the link below to learn more about the varied means by which the community in
Rochester was brought into the planning process for Rochester 2034.

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How To Navigate Rochester 2034

Rochester 2034 covers many topics such as housing, transportation, and economic development. Each has a collection of Strategies aimed at advancing the community towards a more desirable state. While Rochester 2034 is an extensive document, it is organized in a manner that allows the reader to easily digest as much or as little as is desired based on their area of interest.

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