City of Highland Heights

The 2024 Comprehensive Plan for the City of Highland Heights, Kentucky, focuses on guiding land use and development to move the City forward as a leading Northern Kentucky community. Key areas of focus include promoting mixed-use development, encouraging redevelopment in targeted areas like Gateway East, Gateway West, and Town Center, and preserving environmentally sensitive open space. The plan also addresses transportation, aiming to mitigate congestion, improve efficiency on US 27, and enhance multi-modal transportation options. It emphasizes collaboration with Northern Kentucky University and other partners to achieve sustainable economic growth and a high quality of life.

The Highland Heights Comprehensive Plan outlines goals for economic development, defining zones and acceptable development types within those zones to achieve those goals. The plan's goals and objectives, along with an action plan, were approved by the City Council on July 2, 2024. The plan aims to guide land development in the city to ensure consistency with its economic development objectives.

The 2024 Highland Heights Comprehensive Plan focuses on six main themes: embrace redevelopment, maximize opportunities, be a "college" town, seek partnerships, be proactive, and diversify the economy. Key drivers include economic diversification, redevelopment of underutilized areas, pedestrian and bicycle-friendly infrastructure, hillside preservation, image enhancement, boundary enlargement, increased single-family housing, and traffic mitigation. The plan emphasizes mixed-use development, economic growth, open space preservation, and a variety of housing options. Specific goals address land use strategies, single-family and multi-family residential development, public and semi-public uses, parks, open space, commercial and business development, the NKU campus, Town Center mixed-use development, and the Gateway East and West areas. The plan includes a 19-page action plan with objectives to guide implementation over the next five years, focusing on resource acquisition, policy adoption, project prioritization, and partnership development.