City of Mt. Vernon

The City of Mt. Vernon is currently working on a Comprehensive Plan of Action. This plan serves two major functions for our community. First, it sets an overall vision for growth and development of the community for the next five to ten years. Second, it states specified directions for achieving goals toward development. In order to be meaningful and successful, the plan must have input from all members of the community.

The plan is to be composed of a series of separate but later, interrelated core elements that address specific areas of concern. These major areas of concern are:

Economic Development

Infrastructure

Land Use

Quality of Life

Subtopics of interest may evolve within these areas as data and information is collected. Each City Council member will serve as an ex-officio with one of these core groups and has the responsibility to determine five or more individuals to serve as leaders. Each group will work toward determining their topics of interest, methods for obtaining public input, evaluating the collection of data and working with the steering committee and with DMi consultants in the computation of this data.

The elements of this plan are interrelated in that they share common assumptions about current demographics, population and growth potential, the geographic area to which the plan applies and the time frame, 10 years, with an overall re-evaluation on a five year basis.