WAYNESBORO COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

City of Waynesboro, VA

how can a small town leverage its assets and compete for its share of regional success?


SUMMARY


The City of Waynesboro hired czb to guide the development of a new comprehensive plan at a time when the community was stagnating economically and rapidly losing ground to high-amenity neighbors in the Shenandoah Valley. Recognizing that complacency was an issue for some of Waynesboro's key stakeholders, czb facilitated a process that laid bare the implications of maintaining the status quo and focused attention on the factors that influence location decisions by households and businesses.

Priority Projects

Specific priority projects are designed to help Waynesboro reach its long-term goals.


A New Direction is "Crucial to the City's Future"


The resulting plan provides a blueprint for making Waynesboro a community of choice in its region by making the most of its tremendous natural and historic assets, prioritizing limited resources, boosting community standards, and applying a values-based framework to decision-making.


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