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Community Compass

138 East Court Street, Rm 807, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-1224
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Introduction

Elected leaders in all of Hamilton County’s 49 jurisdictions, planning commissions, administrators, and citizens face choices and decisions every day. The choices they make—large or small—determine the continued health of their communities. Community COMPASS at its essence is a framework for decision-making for elected leaders, officials, civic organizations, and private citizens. Community COMPASS makes recommendations related to large capital improvement projects and large county-wide policy changes, for collaborative efforts by civic organizations and communities, and for incremental decisions made every day by elected and appointed officials in all 49 Hamilton County jurisdictions. Over time, large sweeping programs, coordinated efforts, and incremental decisions will achieve the goals and challenges set forth in this plan—the challenge of a better future for Hamilton County and the Cincinnati metropolitan region.

The principal result of Community COMPASS is a comprehensive set of goals and challenges for Hamilton County, and strategies to achieve these challenges. Overall, it is a product of our community’s values, arrived at through consensus and collaboration among the thousands of groups and individuals who participated in creating this plan. The realization of the Community COMPASS vision and objectives will be the result of numerous decisions made by many different organizations. In addition, individual strategies will often require the collaboration of several decision-making organizations and stakeholders.

Beginning with the Values Survey sent to 4,500 residents in November 2000 all the way through the final public hearings and adoption process in 2005, Community COMPASS has been and continues to be an open, collaborative effort. The cooperation and consensus-building that is a hallmark of Community COMPASS was not quick or easy to develop. Likewise, implementing the strategies recommended by this plan and achieving the goals and challenges before us will not be quick or easy. Some of the initiatives recommended in this plan may take decades of concerted effort to accomplish. Others can be implemented much more quickly and address pressing needs in the community.

Faced with an array of 30 different planning initiatives and their related strategies, the Community COMPASS Steering Team analyzed the list to determine which initiatives to implement first. This analysis is described in the Steering Team Report on Prioritization of Initiatives (Report No. 13-2). They determined that 13 of the initiatives have the highest priority based on strength of relationships with other initiatives and potential impact. In other words, implementing these Priority Initiatives will result in the greatest initial progress toward Community COMPASS goals. However, each of the 30 initiatives will actually come into play based on individual priorities of implementation partners – based on their mission, authority, responsibility, and current interests.
 

Community COMPASS
HIGH PRIORITY INITIATIVES

Ranked by Community COMPASS Steering Team on July 30, 2002 -- based on strength of relationships with other initiatives and potential impact

 

Priority	Initiative	Related Community COMPASS Vision Element
1	Initiative 4. Comprehensive economic development plan	Economy and Labor Market
2	Initiative 25. Countywide growth plan	Land Use and Development Framework
3	Initiative 28. Regional and multi-modal transit system	Mobility
4	Initiative 9. Collaboration on countywide issues	Governance
5	Initiative 19. Partnerships to support and improve schools and their roles in communities. (initiatives 19 and 20 combined)	Education
6	Initiative 27. Revitalization including First Suburbs	Economy and Labor Market, Land Use and Development Framework
7	Initiative 22. Addressing discrimination	Environmental and Social Justice
8 (tie)	Initiative 11. Increased citizen participation	Civic Engagement and Social Capital
8 (tie)	Initiative 10. Incentives for better collaborative decision making	Governance
8 (tie)	Initiative 29. Countywide sanitary & storm sewer systems & policies	Community Services
11 (tie)	Initiative 30. Coordinated planning and infrastructure	Community Services, Mobility, Land Use and Development Framework
11 (tie)	Initiative 24. Countywide greenspace plan	Environment
11 (tie)	Initiative 6. Regional development initiatives	Economy and Labor Market

Note: The entire list of 30 initiatives is presented in Section 2 along with related action strategies and implementation status. Many of the initiatives not listed as priorities by the Steering Team are closely related to, if not inseparable from, the “priority initiatives”. As a result, implementation partners will likely set priorities among the 30 initiatives that differ from the Steering Team recommendations listed above. The priorities of Implementation Partners will also be affected by their mission, authority, responsibility, funding, and current interests.