• Build a strong community identity and sense of place.

  • Cultural Theme: Sport, Golfing, Soccer, Baseball, Parks, Trails, MT Bike, Outdoor Experience, Open space, etc.

  • Implementation Theme: Neighborhood Park expansion,, Improve Park experience diversity, MT Bike trails, hiking, running, sponsored forest runs, Art/Culture

• Work with businesses, neighborhoods, residence, and government representative to create opportunities

• Coalesce vision through business, HOA’s, interest groups, Arts/Culture, etc. to support a Fairwood identify that builds lasting community resilience in social and economic wealth.

• Build vibrant inclusive gathering places that support Fairwood Community enrichment supported by long term funding and gathering centers

• Promote housing affordability, smart regulatory application, fiscal restraint.

• Integrate community features (e.g., Street/walkway lights) that deter crime, support access to local law enforcement and community crisis outreach

• Look to non-government solutions that bring fiscal efficiencies to local and social community challenges

• Convenience: Daily needs and amenities (like shops, restaurants, schools, transportation, and parks) should be within a comfortable walking/Bicycle distance, typically within a 10-15-minutes

• Pedestrian-friendly Design: Streets should be designed with features that prioritize mobility of mixed use, such as wide-sidewalks, crosswalks, round abouts, and building access that accommodates urban transportation

• Interconnected bicycle/path/street Networks: A connected street grid network makes it easier to navigate and reduces reliance on cars 

• Aesthetics and Sense of Place: Emphasis on beauty, human comfort, and creating a distinct neighborhood identity with an open space and outdoor activity theme

• Human Scale: Buildings and public spaces designed with consideration for pedestrian comfort and engagement 

• Locate regional capital facilities and urban services within major metropolitan centers that possess the infrastructure, resources, and tax base to manage them effectively.

• Avoid placing such facilities in suburban or rural communities unless a non-urban location is demonstrably the most appropriate and does not induce further development.

• Prohibit industrial-scale operations and high-density housing near environmentally sensitive areas, including lakes and natural habitats.

• Support zoning that revitalizes existing commercial parcels and residential housing while preserving ecological integrity

Ensure consistency of plans among adjacent jurisdictions (e.g., city and county) as required by the State’s Growth Management Act to ensure consistency for connecting routes

• Develop, implement, and evaluate concurrency programs and methods that fully consider growth targets, service needs, and level-of-service standards.

• Work to coordinate rate of future growth in small suburban cities to be concurrent with the provision of adequate capacity on state highways to serve the city-to-city traffic flows

• Replace all existing impact mitigation and concurrency management standards and regulations with a new system based on vehicle-miles-of-travel as a common basis for measurement of development impacts, mitigation, and multi-modal system capacity