{"id":1349709,"date":"2024-08-24T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1349709"},"modified":"2024-08-27T00:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:25:42","slug":"longview-city-council-approves-updated-comprehensive-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1349709","title":{"rendered":"Longview City Council approves updated Comprehensive Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/LongviewCity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1349715\" \/>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Longview City Council approved an updated comprehensive plan that will help guide the city long term. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where refreshing it pretty early. Typically, most municipalities don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t usually refresh until about the 15-year mark,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Michelle Gamboa, Longview City Council member for District 5. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve accomplished so many of our goals and strategies.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to our news partner KETK, the city started the process for an update about three years ago and created a comprehensive plan advisory committee to find out exactly what people in Longview want. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are so grateful for community input,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gamboa. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Not only did we collect input though these public meetings, but we also had a survey go out.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d From this they said the living document is a combination of both city planning and community input. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They have a really good pulse on what the community is looking for,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Michael Shirley, Director of development services for the City of Longview. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So they were able to bring their experiences as well as what their hearing from the community to help guide the process.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He said the committee found what people want hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t changed much since the 2015 version, so their vision statement stayed the same with specific goals changing. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Housing and housing affordability,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Shirley. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maintain and encourage new types of entertainment options for our community\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Shirley added that it will also encourage local businesses to thrive in Longview. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So they can make good decisions on what our constituents to see Longview go in the future,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gamboa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Longview City Council approved an updated comprehensive plan that will help guide the city long term. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where refreshing it pretty early. Typically, most municipalities don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t usually refresh until about the 15-year mark,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Michelle Gamboa, Longview City Council member for District 5. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve accomplished so many of our goals and strategies.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1349709\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview City Council approves updated Comprehensive Plan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1349718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/LongviewCity.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 16:44:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/LongviewCity.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349719,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349709\/revisions\/1349719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1349718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}