The plan will carry the city through 2045 and also help inform the city’s new comprehensive plan, which could be approved later this year.
What readers need to know
The new strategic plan highlights the city’s priorities with residential feedback and a series of mission statements that officials hope will help guide future planning, officials said at the meeting. City Council approved the new plan unanimously.
According to the presentation, the city’s guiding principles in its new strategic plan will be:
- Safe
- Sustainable
- Prudent
- Opportunistic
- Healthy
- Age-friendly
- Welcoming
Also of note
Officials involved in creating the plan also conducted social media outreach in January, where they received more than 100 responses. Responses to the outreach were “mostly positive,” according to the presentation.
However, there was what officials called “friction” in whether the city should be urban or country, as well as Manvel’s affiliation with Houston.
Other issues residents highlighted, according to the presentation, included:
- Traffic congestion
- Drainage and road service conditions
- Keeping up with growth
- Noise
- Local jobs
Manvel last year began gathering residential feedback on the city’s new strategic plan, which is the first ever strategic plan in the city’s history, Community Impact previously reported.
Titled “Future Manvel,” the initiative included several meetings throughout 2024 and was meant to help Manvel plan for its ongoing growth, which has included its population more than doubling from 2013 to 2023, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
What’s next?
The city’s new strategic plan will set a framework as officials now begin work to formulate Manvel’s new comprehensive plan.
Officials will begin meeting with Manvel’s Planning and Development Commission over the next several months, according to the presentation. Following those meetings, a draft of the new comprehensive plan could be brought to City Council between May and July.
