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Community Plan

Supporting our core community values.

The Community Plan sets a long-term vision to enhance Crested Butte’s livability, functionality, and sense of community by aligning the Town’s development regulations with the community’s values and strategic goals. It aims to encourage private-sector investment in community-serving housing, businesses, and nonprofits to address Crested Butte’s pressing local challenges – an escalating affordability crisis, a vulnerable and concentrated economy, a decline in full-time residency, and zoning regulations that fail to produce the housing and infrastructure the community needs.

The Town received a $200,000 planning grant from the Colorado Department of Colorado Affairs “Strong Communities” program to develop this plan. The Town is working with Torti Gallas + Partners and Hoffman Strategy Group to support development of this plan.

Get Involved! 

We appreciate your time and valuable feedback during the review of the Draft Community Plan. The survey is now closed, and we are grateful for your input. View Survey Results here. We’ll be meeting with the Advisory Committee to review the community feedback and refine the plan based on what we've heard.

Check out the upcoming meeting dates and engagement opportunities below:

  • May 5: Town Council Work Session at 6 pm
  • May 19: Joint Town Council/BOZAR Work Session at 5 pm

 

View Draft Community Plan

Watch the Draft Community Plan Open House recording here. For questions reach out to planning@crestedbutte-co.gov

Resource Library 

Community Plan Process

Plan development will follow the Community Compass decision-making framework to establish a goal, define success measures, develop alternatives, and make decisions using informed consent. The general timeline for the plan includes: 

Phase 1 – Discovery (March– May 2024)

The first phase is focused on data collection and analysis, including a policy review, economic market study, and review of the housing needs assessment, which will culminate in better understanding the challenge and defining the goal.  

Phase 2 – Desire and Continued Discovery (June– August 2024)

Phase two continues data analysis and adds  Community Outreach through summer Compass Navigation events, surveys and block parties. Targeted stakeholder and focus group interviews will take place during this period as well. Draft success measures will then be crafted by synthesizing community feedback. 

Phase 3  - Design (September– January 2025)

In this phase, community outreach continues, culminating in a design charrette. The charrette will interactively sketch alternative future build-out scenarios for the Town, which will be guided by and filtered through the success measures. After the charrette, the Community Plan advisory committee will work through refining alternatives, which will culminate in a draft plan. 

Phase 4 - Discussion (February - June 2025)

In the final phase, community outreach continues to refine the alternatives and draft plan, which will culminate in recommendations to inform an update to the Town’s Zoning Code and Design Guidelines and Standards in 2025.   

Advisory Committee Information 

Advisory Committee: The Community Plan advisory committee is comprised of one Council member, one BOZAR member, and residents, local business owners, and community members. Advisory committee meetings are open to the public, but public comment may not be taken. Please email planning@crestedbutte-co.gov with any feedback or questions on the CP.  

Past Meeting Materials:

Outreach Materials and Resources