The City of Houston’s highest identified priorities are:
First Tier
- Public Safety
- Job Growth
- Mobility
Second Tier:
- Drainage
- Effective Governance
- Quality of Life
There are other important regional issues of concern where the City cooperates with other agencies including:
- Schools
- Healthcare
- Flood control
Work plans are proceeding to tackle mobility and drainage which were identified by the General Plan Committee as the highest unaddressed priorities of the city.
Citizen Visioning Processes
Several public agencies and civic organizations conducted several large-scale, regional planning processes with extensive citizen participation from 2003-2006 and identified specific visions, values and priorities. The City of Houston recognizes these efforts and incorporated their findings into the General Plan.
Blueprint Houston
For more information on Blueprint Houston, a non profit organization dedicated to building community support for a planning process that makes improvements to Houston’s quality of life, visit: www.blueprinthouston.org/index.html.
Houston Area Survey
For the past 26 years, the Houston Area Survey has monitored systematically the continuities and changes in demographic patterns, life experiences, attitudes, and beliefs among successive representative samples of Harris County residents.
For more information on the Houston Area Survey, visit www.houstonareasurvey.org
Envision Houston Region
The Envision Houston Region initiative began with five workshops held between the months of September and November 2005. More than 800 citizens participated in half-day workshops that ‘mapped out’ alternatives for ways in which the eight-county region could grow.
For more information on the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) “Envision Houston Region” go to www.envisionhoustonregion.org.
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