Dawn Shaw Maddox

The Jefferson Comprehensive Plan 2024 5-year Update focuses on maintaining community enthusiasm, improving schools, and ensuring the security of its inhabitants. The plan aims to manage growth while preserving history, protecting neighborhoods, enhancing downtown, providing community facilities, managing traffic congestion, maintaining tree canopy, and balancing residential and non-residential uses for a stable economy. Key areas of focus include annexation policies, natural resource protection, historic preservation, urban design, housing, economic development, community facilities and services, education, public health, transportation, broadband services, and intergovernmental coordination. The plan outlines goals and policies to achieve these objectives, including strategies for land use, transportation improvements, and community development. A community work program and capital improvements element are also included to guide implementation.