Guiding Documents
The Comprehensive Land Use Plan, Imagine Duluth 2035, was adopted in 2016. An update to the 2006 Comprehensive Land Use Plan, it is a policy document that describes the 20-year vision for the city. It is also the foundation upon which Duluth’s regulatory tools (zoning, subdivision, shoreland, floodplain, and other ordinances), and capital improvement program rest.
- Imagine Duluth 2035
- Executive Summary
- Background
- Community Engagement
- Governing Principles
- Economic Development
- Energy & Conservation
- Housing
- Open Space
- Transportation
- Land Use
- General Development
- Transformative Opportunities
- Metrics & Measurements
- Appendices
- Community Survey Results
- Health in All Policies Survey results
- Youth Engagement Results
- Irving Fairmount Brownfields
- Imagine Canal Park Summary
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Consolidated Plan is a five year planning document. It lays out the goals for the City of Duluth’s Community Development program. Based on a collaborative process involving community members and local organizations, the City establishes a unified vision for effective, coordinated neighborhood and community development strategies. The current Consolidated Plan outlines the community’s goals and objectives for 2015 through 2019.
The 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness embraces the shift from managing homelessness to ending it. According to recent research, successful Ten-Year Plans require both "closing the front door" by preventing future homelessness, and "opening the back door" by offering new housing options that accept the homeless as they are.
Annual Action Plans outline how the City plans to strategically invest federal resources to meet current challenges for low-to moderate-income people. The Plan also highlights how this year's funding will address a portion of the five-year Consolidated Plan goals.
The Citizens Participation Plan serves as a guidelines and procedures to address citizen participation requirements under the Consolidated Plan and the Department of Housing and Urban Development programs.
The CAPER is a document that outlines annual accomplishments in community development and housing.