Highland Heights City Council heard the first reading of their 2024 comprehensive plan at Tuesday night’s June city council meeting.
Highland Heights city planner David A. Geohegan heads up the new comprehensive plan, which is mandated by the city of Kentucky and takes place every five years. The last comprehensive plan was completed in 2019.
The comprehensive plan helps with city zoning, Geohegan said.
Twenty-one citizens of Highland Heights included comments about things they would like to see in the city to include in the plan. Some of the comments created suggestions to help redevelop the city, like becoming more bicycle-friendly and creating better traffic flow, enhanced image and code enforcement, among many others.
This was all done by holding open public meetings and creating a steering committee for the plan. Councilmember John Braun heads the committee, which includes Highland Heights citizens who help build the comprehensive plan and suggest changes before finalization.
“The steering committee did an excellent job recommending to me these changes,” Geohegan said.
In terms of what is next with the plan, Geohegan plans to visit the public comments in greater detail and plan for more steering committee meetings for the project in the future. The council only heard the first reading of the comprehensive plan Tuesday but will later vote on it in the coming year.