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FARGO GROWTH PLAN 2024

Fargo, ND

HOW CAN A RAPIDLY GROWING CITY GUIDE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN WAYS THAT ACHIEVE DIVERSE COMMUNITY GOALS?

SUMMARY

Fargo has added nearly 40,000 residents since 2000 and has nearly doubled its population and land area since 1980. Much of this growth has been accommodated by new development on the city’s periphery, but progress over the past decade in downtown Fargo has meant a growing focus on investment in established areas—including Fargo’s core neighborhoods, where czb worked in 2020 to develop a core-wide master plan.

In 2023, the City of Fargo turned to czb once again to help the community create a long-range plan for citywide growth—one that effectively guides and shapes growth on the edges while defining the community’s desired balance of new development and redevelopment. Working with a technical committee of staff from City Hall and partner agencies, as well as an Advisory Committee of community stakeholders, czb is leading a team of engineering, fiscal impact, and coding experts through a process that helps the community decide where and how Fargo grows into the future—regardless of how much it grows by.

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Identifying opportunities to shape growth

One important aspect of the Fargo Growth Plan 2024 is working with the community to understand the long-term impact of the FM Diversion project—a massive flood protection initiative that will serve to enable growth in some areas while restricting it in others. Few projects in Fargo’s history have had the potential to shape the city’s future in such as way as the diversion project, and a priority of the growth planning process is to ensure that the plan helps the community make decisions that will make the most of this opportunity.

Planning to Code

A common shortcoming of long-range plans is that it sometimes takes many years to update zoning and building codes to reflect and help implement the plan’s policy direction. With that in mind, czb designed the project scope so that the resulting growth management plan is ready to seamlessly transition to a code development process—shaving months if not years off of the typical delay between plan adoption and code implementation.

FARGO GROWTH PLAN 2024

Fargo, ND

HOW CAN A RAPIDLY GROWING CITY GUIDE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN WAYS THAT ACHIEVE DIVERSE COMMUNITY GOALS?

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