The Comprehensive Planning Process
Process & Timeline
The Comprehensive Planning Process takes place across multiple phases held over many months. Each phase helps to build the foundation for the final plan, ensuring an end product that is thoroughly researched and built with extensive community input.
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January - April 2024
The Project Team will collect and analyze a range of data and information including reviewing existing plans, regulations, policies, and programs; studying demographic and market trends; and assessing physical conditions.
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April 2024 - Ongoing
The Project Team will utilize a broad spectrum of engagement tools and strategies to gather community input throughout the planning process.
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June - October 2024
The Project Team will work with Steering Committee and Plan Commission to identify an area(s) of the community which are most susceptible to change or have experienced significant change in recent years to create strategic land use and development scenarios to study the impacts of desired change.
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October 2024 - March 2025
This is the home stretch! The Objectives & Key Results Implementation Strategy will serve as the framework for the Comprehensive Plan document, detail how broad goals that comprise the community’s vision can be achieved over the next 20 years. The Project Team will write the Plan and guide City Staff through the adoption process.
The planning process takes a coordinated effort between multiple groups of stakeholders. Each phase of the engagement will work to incorporate the expertise of city officials, a steering committee, industry leaders, and the residents and community leaders of East Peoria.
Who participates in the planning process?
Residents
Businesses
Property Owners
Community Stakeholders
Community Groups
Civic Institutions
Government and Quasi-governmental Organizations
Steering Committee
Chosen for their individual expertise and local knowledge, this group works alongside the Project Team throughout the planning process.
City
Departments
City Staff, Elected Official, and Community Members should be able to utilize the plan to make informed decisions about the community’s future.
City Council
Utilizes the Plan to inform broad decision-making for the City; will adopt the Final Plan.
Planning Commission
Utilizes the Plan to make land use, zoning, and development decisions; will recommend adoption of the Plan to City Council.
Steering Committee
John Kahl, Mayor - City of East Peoria
Ty Livingston, Director of Planning and Community Development - City of East Peoria
Brad Brewer, Planning & GIS Coordinator - City of East Peoria
Michael Bruner, Planner - TCRPC
Gina Driscoll, Chair, Zoning Board of Appeals - City of East Peoria
Richard Cridlebaugh, Chair, Planning Commission - City of East Peoria
Mark Hill, City Commissioner - City of East Peoria
Rick Swan, Director - East Peoria Chamber of Commerce
Jeff Becker, Finance Director - City of East Peoria
Devin Birch, Resident - Austin Engineering Company
Gene Pflederer, Resident/Realtor
Jill Peterson, Public Relations - City of East Peoria