On The Horizon Hastings Comprehensive Plan

The City of Hastings Development Services staff is undertaking a comprehensive review and update of the City's Comprehensive Plan with the project consultants, Marvin Planning Consultants. The Plan's update is "On The Horizon Hastings."

The previous Comprehensive Plan, Imagine Hastings, was completed in 2009 with consultants, Gould Evans Associates. Typically, a comprehensive plan is intended to be reviewed annually and updated every five years. Additionally, a comprehensive plan should be replaced approximately every ten years. The 2009 Imagine Hastings Comprehensive Plan is over ten years old and is due to be replaced.

For this On The Horizon Hastings Comprehensive Planning update, Marvin Planning Consultants described their process through three lenses. First, they looked into background information about the community by visiting/driving through Hastings and collecting information from the Census, previously completed Housing Study, and various facilities around town. The next step was community engagement through a survey on SurveyMonkey, a community engagement process on Mindmixer, and various public meetings. These two steps allowed the consultant to get an idea of where Hastings was in the past, and where they are now. Using these findings, the consultant created goals and policies to determine a roadmap for where the city wants to be in the future.

We recognize that most people don't regularly use a comprehensive plan, so we have created an FAQ section with some commonly asked questions including, what is a comprehensive plan, why plan for the future, and how to use the plan.

We invite you to follow this project and check back regularly to find these updates.

Click the image below to visit a storymap about the 2024 Comprehensive Plan in comparison to the 2009 Comprehensive Plan.