Greenfield Comprehensive Plan
Updated May 12, 2025
After two years of planning and community engagement, the draft plan is ready for review... by or download the plan you! Click the link below to view and/or download the plan. If you didn't make it the open house on April 30, you can provide feedback at the virtual option below.
Provide feedback on the draft plan at the virtual open house. This virtual option will be open April 30 to at least May 30, 2025. We encourage you to share this with your community!
The City of Greenfield Plan Commission will hold a public meeting for the approval and certification of the 2025 Update to the Comprehensive Plan on May 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM in the City Hall Chambers. The Comprehensive Plan is intended to guide the growth of the City over the next thirty (30) years. Public input is important in the planning process, and attendance and participation are strongly encouraged. City planners will be available to answer questions.
The final draft of the Comprehensive Plan is available for review prior to the public meeting at the office of Engineering and Planning located at 10 South State St, Greenfield, IN between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM. It can also be viewed and downloaded on this website at the Resource Center.
Persons with disabilities or non-English speaking persons who wish to attend the public hearing and need assistance should contact the Commission Secretary, 10 South State Street, Greenfield, IN, 46140, 317-477-4320, not later than May 22, 2025. Every effort will be made to make reasonable accommodation for these persons.
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Greenfield Plan Commission Meeting
Located at City Hall (10 S State St, Greenfield, IN 46140). Learn more at https://www.greenfieldin.org/.
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The City of Greenfield is updating its Comprehensive Plan, a policy roadmap for the year 2055. Previously updated in 2015, the City has since attracted new businesses, experienced residential growth, started reinvesting in downtown, completed transportation and quality of life enhancements, and welcomed new staff. The economy has also changed drastically since 2015: the 2020 pandemic and the manufacturing sector have been two significant changes. There are shortages in housing supply and a continual need for more choices at a variety of price points. While we have accomplished many plan goals, and completed our Stellar projects, there are other actions that need to be re-evaluated or updated to maintain the plan’s relevancy.
The purpose of the Comprehensive Plan is to guide the City of Greenfield’s elected leaders, appointed boards and commissions, and staff regarding the type, location, and intensity of development and redevelopment within the city’s jurisdiction. The planning process will outline an aspirational vision and goals along with a strategic framework for future development, redevelopment, and community building projects within the city. It will also ensure that we’re able to maintain a high quality of life for residents and are economically competitive.
Timeline item 1 - complete
Phase 1: Discovery
Timeline item 2 - complete
Phase 2: Visioning
Team up with the public to envision the future of the community, which included meetings stakeholders representing a wide range of ages and experiences in Greenfield. These meetings helped to produce:
Timeline item 3 - complete
Phase 3: Framework
Timeline item 4 - active
Phase 4: Action
This timeline displays all the meetings and events of the planning process so far, organized by the phase in which they occurred. The materials for each meeting and event are available at the Resource Center, organized again by planning phase.
County Fairgrounds Pop-up
Depot Street Park Concert Pop-up
Steering Committee Meeting #1
Focus Groups
Community Workshop #1
Informed by focus group findings and visioning activities
High School Focus Group
Repeated the exercises from Community Workshop #1 with a group of Greenfield-Central High School students
Steering Committee Meeting #2
City Department Heads Focus Group
Steering Committee Meeting #3
City Council Meeting Check-in and Review
Community Workshop #2
Steering Committee Meeting #4
City Infrastructure Focus Group
Community Open House
Plan Commission Meeting
City Council Meeting: First Reading
City Council Meeting: Second and Third Reading
A comprehensive plan is a citizen-driven, long-range plan (around 20 years) to help city planning staff, policymakers, and other local government officials identify goals and objectives for the future development of the community as well as provide a framework for how to implement the plan. The plan works to prioritize the needs and values of the community by looking at infrastructure and how different activities occurs throughout the city, including the land use, transportation network, utility infrastructure, quality of life, environmental features, and existing policies that affect businesses and residences such as zoning laws.
The city is making a comprehensive plan for three main reasons:
There are three ways to stay up to date:
The details of the next public meeting will be posted on the "Events" tab when available. This information will also be distributed via the mailing list, which you can sign up for here.
Rundell Ernstberger Associates are the lead consultants. Based in Indianapolis, REA has over 40 years of experience with a diverse portfolio of projects ranging from land use plans, regional economic plans to zoning to public space, park, and streetscape designs. Learn more about REA at their official website here: https://www.reasite.com/.
CWC Latitudes is an economic and implementation-based firm out of Columbus, Indiana.
Staff from both firms have worked with Greenfield on past projects including the previous Comprehensive Plan, Downtown Plan, Stellar Plan and application, and Depot Park.
Goals: a breakdown of the vision statement into broad, thematic focus areas. Naturally, they are comprehensive in scope, accomplished over longer timeframes, and significant to achieving the community's vision.
Objectives: how the community wants to achieve the goals, which are more actionable and accomplished in somewhat shorter timeframes. This includes identifying priority objectives, responsible parties (e.g. City departments, public agencies, organizations, etc.), and possible partnerships.
Action Steps: the most specific and actionable (i.e. "boots on the ground") element of the plan. To ensure the plan remains flexible over the 20 years, they are written as recommendations rather than mandates. In other words, they are possible avenues for the identified parties to pursue the plan's objectives.
Placetypes is an approach to land use planning that defines future development patterns by their desired characteristics rather than simply the desired land use. This can include building design, site layout, architecture, land use, and scale. This approach to land use planning utilizes photos and/or conceptual renderings to convey the desired development characteristics within each placetype. In comparison to traditional land use planning (which only define land use), there is a greater emphasis on the quality of development rather than quantity. Here is an article that further explains placetypes:
https://www.civicbrand.com/insights/articles/the-r...
Planning (also called urban planning, regional planning, spatial planning, rural planning, etc.) is generally defined as the management of the built and natural environments. The natural environment includes areas where there is little to no human impact, as well as 'ecosystem services' which provide extensive benefits to human development, such as flood control, recreation, and more. The built environment includes human-made structures and systems such as buildings, roads, parks, safety services, and other infrastructures. You can learn more about planning by starting with the introductory resources and videos below.
Have questions or want to learn more about a project, contact the planning consultant team below:
| Name | Rundell Ernstberger Associates |
|---|---|
| planning@reasite.com | |
| Website | www.reasite.com/ |
| In writing | 618 E Market Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202 |
