The Gainesville City council will vote on an updated version of the local comprehensive plan during their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday.
"It's what I call the 60,000-foot view of, what we want the city to be going forward," said Rusty Ligon, Gainesville Community and Economic Development Director. "We look at all your different community facilities that exist within the city, our future land use, and how we want to grow going forward."
Among the primary development goals laid out in the plan are increasing affordable housing options, maintaining outdoor recreation areas, making the city more walkable and improving overall transit options for residents.
The comprehensive plan lays out the city's goals until 2040, with a focus on future development. Ligon told AccessWDUN the report explicitly mentions three sites: the old Lakewood Mall, Jesse Jewell Parkway West and the "Midland Mill Village Infill."
Ligon believes that the old textile mill on the Midland site could be "loft housing" in the future, and the area around it would be a multi-use development area.
The state has already approved the plan––the council meets tonight at 5:30 p.m. to consider the plan.
You can read the plan's executive summary here.
You can read the full plan here.
