The city of Wilmington is looking for public input on what the city will look like moving forward into the future until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25, at Halyburton Park.
After reviewing a year’s worth of public input, the city planning department created six different maps with each map showing changes following different alternative future vision for Wilmington. Each of those maps will be on display at Halyburton park Wednesday and afterward associate planner Brian Chambers said the city would post one map at a time in the coming weeks.
The six alternative future visions include continuing the city’s current development and transportation practices, creating live-work nodes throughout the city, focusing on transit-oriented development, creating urban centers, creating community corridors and main streets, and focusing on neighborhoods that are already in a state of transition.
Chambers said the initiative was based on the fact that the city has never had a true comprehensive development plan and because the city’s population is projected to grow by 56,000 in the next 26 years.
In a couple months public comment will be closed on the future visions maps and Chambers said the planning department would then begin combining the most desired aspects of each of the six visions to create a future development strategy map for the city.
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