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The 2023 Garner Forward Comprehensive Plan was developed to guide future growth, conservation, and development decisions throughout the community.  It is intended to relate to other town plans, policies, and ordinances in place, or that may be developed in the future, and provide guidance to other government agencies preparing plans or programming projects that may affect the town's planning area.

The document builds upon the vision, guiding principles, and recommendations presented in the 2018 Garner Forward Comprehensive Plan, and provides more focus and clarity related to expectations for community character, land use mix, and quality development expected in the planning area. Important and relevant items from the 2018 plan are presented again in this version of the document. The new document also contemplates a future where Garner is a major center of economic activity in eastern Wake County.

The ability to look across many topics at once is an asset for the comprehensive plan. It allows the opportunity to both prioritize outcomes and balance needs within the community in a single document.  It moves the community to "intended outcomes" and "coordinated efforts" for the future. The plan is a visionary document, a blueprint for the future, and one of the few times the community dreams big and really challenges itself to think about its long-term future.

The comprehensive plan will help town leaders make decisions that will guide future development and achieve the goals of the community. Patience may be needed for some aspects of the plan to evolve as it sets a long-term vision for growth and conservation over an extended period of time.

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