Final Version, Frederick Comprehensive Plan
Based upon input from several thousand community members in 2023 and 2024, the final version of the Frederick Comprehensive Plan is now available! Please click here to access the final document as well as the appendices for the document.
About Frederick Forward
What is normally included in a Comprehensive Plan and a Downtown Plan? What are the goals for Frederick Forward?
- Establish the overall vision for the overall Town of Frederick and for Downtown Frederick for the next 20-plus years
- Draw from broad community input in creating the new Comprehensive Plan and new Downtown Plan
- Establish key goals and actions to guide the community’s growth, and Downtown’s continuing evolution
- Provide the foundation for follow-up studies and projects to be completed by the Town of Frederick and various community groups, in achieving the vision for the Town and for Downtown Frederick
- Community vision for Frederick
- Future land uses and development
- Housing and Economic Development
- Planning for multimodal transportation (driving, walking, biking, and taking transit)
- Parks, trails, and open space
- Infrastructure (water, sewer, stormwater, etc.)
- Community facilities
- Community vision for the Downtown district
- Potential development and redevelopment
- The desired character (look and feel) of development in the Downtown area
- Streetscape improvements (lighting, seating, public art, and other features along 5th Street and other streets Downtown)
- Potential projects to create or enhance gathering places in the Downtown area
- Transportation connections within Downtown and to other parts of Frederick
- Potential enhancements to signage Downtown
