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<br />REVISED DRAFT MARCH 23, 2012 <br />can prioritize its funds to increase the quality and reliability of services, <br />as well as focusing on other important quality of life improvements. <br />Timely Planning Opportunity. The original 2001 Comprehensive Plan <br /> <br />was drafted with a 20-year planning horizon. To ensure that the plan <br />recommendations to undergo updates at five year intervals. Now, just <br />over halfway through the 20-year planning horizon, it is both practical <br />and timely to take a more in-depth look at the planning <br />recommendations, the progress to-date, and to reassess the vision to <br />have changed in the past decade. <br />All combined, these influences and more, have the ability to change the <br />character and feel of La Porte. So why is this update important? This <br />mid-plan, comprehensive update, allows the City to celebrate its <br />accomplishments over the past 10 years, determine major and minor <br />course corrections, and to proactively respond to (i.e., embrace and <br />accommodate; or mitigate) changing influences, conditions, and <br />priorities; all to ensure that the quality of life continues to improve and <br />sustain the citizens of La Porte. <br /> <br />The process required to create this comprehensive plan and its updates <br />may prove more valuable than the plan itself since the documents are <br />just snapshots in time. The planning process involves major community <br />decisions about how much and where development and redevelopment <br />will occur, the pattern and character of that future development, and the <br />services. This leads to the pivotal discussione <br />Cit <br />ͳǤʹ‡‘‰”ƒ’Š‹…ǡ ‹•–‘”‹…ƒŽǡƒ†EconomicSnapshots <br />historical, and economic snapshot of the City of La Porte. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1.6 <br /> <br /> <br />Chapter 1 <br /> <br />