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2003 Comprehensive Plan THE KEARNEY PLAN THE COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR KEARNEY, NEBRASKA PREPARED WITH THE CITY OF KEARNEY BY RDG PLANNING & DESIGN The authors gratefully acknowledge the support, friendship, and commitment of the citizens of Kearney. We would like to express special gratitude to the members of the Planning Coordinating Committee, the Planning Commission, and the City Council, for lending their time and vision to this effort. We are especially grateful to Lance Lang for his leadership during the planning process and to city staff for sharing their time, knowledge, and expertise with us. We appreciate the efforts of these people and others, and are excited about the future of this extraordinary city. Mayor Bruce Blankenship City Council Bruce Blankenship, President Don Kearney, Vice-President Randy Bushkoetter Galen Hadley Stan Clovle Planning Commission James Ganz, Jr., Chair M. Stanley Dart, Vice-Chair Dottie Bowman Larry Cihal Lorin Downing Steve Homan JoAnn Lilly Jay Rasmussen Mike Miller City Manager G. Allen Johnson Public Works Director Rodney K. Wiederspan Planning Director Lance Lang City of Kearney Planning Staff Rodney K. Wiederspan Lance Lang Public Works Director City Planner Bruce Grupe Kirk Stocker City Engineer Utilities Director Max Richardson Darlene K. Pfeiffer Chief Building Official Public Works/Planning Clerk THE TABLE OF CONTENTS An Introduction to the Kearney Plan 1 Chapter One: A Profile of Kearney 9 Chapter Two: A Regional City 27 Chapter Three: Growth and Land Use 47 Existing Land Use Map Following 50 Future Land Use Plan Map Following 64 Urban Service Area Tiers Map Following 66 Annexation Phasing Map Following 90 Chapter Four: Mobility for Urban Quality 95 Transportation Plan Map Following 106 Chapter Five: A Recreation Community 117 Parks and Recreation Map Following 130 Kearney Trails Plan Map Following 132 Phase One Map Following 132 Phase Two Map Following 132 Phase Three Map Following 132 Phase Four Map Following 132 Chapter Six: Quality Public Services 139 Sewer Service Map Following 150 Wood River Watershed Development Districts Map Following 154 Water Service Map Following 160 Chapter Seven: Kearney Gateway 163 Kearney Gateway Master Plan Map Following 180 Chapter Eight: Housing and Neighborhoods 195 Rehabilitation Needs (1997) Following 204 The Kearney Plan Neighborhood Study Areas Following 212 4 Chapter Nine: Implementing the Kearney Plan 235 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KEARNEY PLAN N THE FUTURE, KEARNEY MUST TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE I OF ITS DYNAMIC GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES WHILE PRESERVING ITS DISTINCTIVE QUALITY AS A SMALL CITY. Kearney is completing the transformation from a college town and agricultural market center into a dynamic, rapidly developing regional urban center. These prospects present both exciting challenges and opportunities. The Kearney Plan provides a comprehensive vision of the city’s future, based on taking strategic actions to preserve Kearney’s small city quality of life while taking full advan- tage of its growth prospects. Nebraska’s cities live in a changing social and economic environment. The City of Kearney has made a transition from an earlier niche as a railroad and agricultural service commu- nity to a dynamic and rapidly growing suburban center. In the process, Kearney moved from being a small rural town to emerging as one of the state’s major cities. Kearney is one of the state’s fastest growing communities, a center for government, recre- ation and residential living in its region. The city is taking steps to balance these qualities with additional business park and commercial development. With this growth will come challenges, including how to handle new demands on the city’s infrastructure and trans- portation systems. This comprehensive development plan for Kearney has two fundamental purposes. The first provides an essential legal basis for land use regulation such as zoning and subdivi- sion control. Secondly, a modern comprehensive plan presents a unified and compelling vision for a community, derived from the aspirations of its citizens; and establishes the specific actions necessary to fulfill that vision. • The Legal Role Communities prepare and adopt comprehensive plans for legal purposes. Nebraska State Statutes enable cities to adopt zoning and subdivision ordinances to promote the “health, safety, morals, or general welfare of the community.” Land use regulations such as zoning ordinances recognize that people in a community live cooperatively The Kearney Plan and have certain responsibilities to one another. These regulations establish rules that 2 govern how land is developed within a municipality and its extra-territorial jurisdic- tion. However, under Nebraska law, a city may not adopt land use ordinances without first adopting a comprehensive development plan. This requirement derives from the premise that land use decisions should not be arbitrary, but should follow an accepted and reasonable concept of how the city should grow. Under state statutes, a compre- hensive development plan must address, at a minimum, the following issues: - Land use, or the planned distribution of activities and uses of land in the community. - Transportation facilities. - Community facilities, including recreation facilities, schools, public buildings, and infrastructure. The Kearney Plan provides the ongoing legal basis for the city’s authority to regulate land use and development. • The Community Building Role A comprehensive development plan has an even more sig- nificant role in the growth of a community. The plan es- tablishes a picture of Kearney’s future, based on the par- ticipation of residents in the planning of their community. This vision is particularly crucial at this time in the community’s history, as problems like traffic congestion begin to affect the intimate, small town character that Kearney continues to enjoy. Beyond defining a vision, the plan presents a unified action pro- gram that will implement the city’s goals. The plan is designed as a working docu- ment - a document that both defines the future and provides a working program for realizing the city’s great potential. THE PLANNING PROCESS The Kearney Plan is the result of a planning process that involved citizens of the city to define its future. A Planning Coordinating Committee, representing a wide variety of interests in the community, coordinated this process. The first part of the process involved a three-part strategic planning program, designed to assess the city’s current position; establish visions and goals for Kearney’s twenty-year future; and consider Introduction an action program necessary to achieve that vision. Members of the community were 3 invited to participate in the strategic planning process through a series of community workshops. Community Assessment Participants in the planning process were asked to define the most important issues and qualities of Kearney. • Identification of Major Issues In assessing the city’s situation, participants defined the most important issues that would face Kearney within the next five to ten years. Participants identified the fol- lowing issue areas as most crucial to the city: - Transportation, including traffic congestion, poor north-south traffic flows, needed road and viaduct improvements, and the need to create better connections to link the various parts of the city. Respondents often cited the need for some sort of circumfer- ential traffic circulator to relieve congestion along Second Avenue. The lack of local, frequent, affordable air service in Kearney was also mentioned as a problem, as was the city’s dependence upon Second Avenue interchange as the sole access to Interstate 80. - Housing, including the need to promote the construction of housing that is affordable to low and moderate income persons, and available for elderly residents. Citizens sought more housing choice, more multi-family development, and creation of new housing opportunities for the city’s substantial mobile home population. - Growth and Community Development, including the need to manage the type and rate of growth to ensure that it occurs in an orderly, cost-efficient manner. Residents ex- pressed considerable fears and uncertainty about the pace and amount of growth that could be managed, without damaging the quality of life in Kearney. Citizens men- tioned land use controls, landscaping standards, and clear, targeted growth and an- nexation policies as important to Kearney. - Public services and facilities, including the competing demands of needed repairs to older infrastructure, while population expansion creates new facility needs in grow- ing areas. Citizens identified needs to repair streets and reconstruct drainage systems in older parts of the city. In growth areas, issues include: the need to ensure timely fire protection, new parks, and cost-effective phasing of sewer and water extensions. - Economic development, including business development, the effects of recent highway commercial expansion on Kearney Centre, industrial diversification, and adequate land for industrial uses. Some participants expressed a need for better government-busi- ness cooperation and coordination. - Recreation and expanded youth and family activities, including the need for more active ballfields, the potential for a family aquatic center and a network of city recreational trails. - Kearney Centre, including the need to renew the deteriorated condition of second The Kearney Plan floor spaces in Downtown, and remodeling, facade restoration, and parking, street
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