BVCP2024 - Town of Buena Vista Comprehensive Plan 2024

The Town of Buena Vista, Colorado needs a brand-new Comprehensive Plan designed to fulfill an existing, but to-be updated Collective Vision of a rural mountain town. While elements of previous Comprehensive Plans may continue to be represented in this new Comprehensive Plan, the goal is a new document that will be informed by other planning efforts, for example, the Water Resources Master Plan, Three-Mile Plan, and Recreation Master Plan, while striking a balance of traditional small town values and evolving identities.

Development of this Comprehensive Plan should gather data from as many and as diverse community members and stakeholders as possible. The scope of work anticipates a multi-faceted focus on community outreach, surveying, interviewing, facilitating focus groups, and holding public meetings, with the intent of tapping into a broad range of local constituents, both seasonal and year-round, with an aim to minimize bias. In-depth engagement from non-traditional audiences such as youth, low-wage earners, seasonal employees, minority communities, renters, ESL persons, and aging residents is crucial.

Buena Vista is both a community and a municipality. Many inhabitants of the larger 81211 zip code of Chaffee County consider themselves a part of Buena Vista and have mailing addresses in Town, even though they can neither vote in municipal elections nor sit on the Board of Trustees and our Planning Commission. Input from this broader community and the seasonal workforce is a key part of this process.

DOLA EIAF Tier I grant funds may be used to pay for these services. As such, DOLA EIAF guidelines must be met. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GWdTQFLUHMwEzUQiXQIlNesoIz6x1-nm/view for more details.