The city hired Kendig Keast Collaborative, a multidisciplinary, nationally recognized community planning firm offering planning and implementation services for cities and towns from coasts to plains, to help facilitate the process of having a Comprehensive Community Plan, a Downtown Revitalization Plan, and a Parks Master Plan.

What is a Comprehensive Plan?

A comprehensive plan is usually the most important policy document a municipal  government prepares and maintains. This is because the plan: 

• Lays out a “big picture” vision regarding the future growth and enhancement of the community.
• Considers at once the entire geographic area of the community, including areas where new development and redevelopment may occur.
• Assesses near- and longer-term needs and desires across a variety of inter-related  topics that represent the key “building blocks” of a community (e.g., land use, transportation, urban design, economic development, redevelopment, housing,  neighborhoods, parks and recreation, utility infrastructure, public facilities and services, cultural facilities, etc.). 

Downtown Revitalization Plan

The vision is that the plan’s findings and strategies focus on the physical and economic aspects of Dayton’s growth and development over a 20-year planning horizon.

  Parks Master Plan

The purpose of the Dayton Parks and Recreation Master Plan is to determine the community’s current and future needs for improving its parks and recreation system and to provide for adequate areas and facilities to meet both the short and long-term needs of the community.

For a look at the complete plans, download the information here:

• Comprehensive Plan
• Downtown Revitalization Plan
• Parks Master Plan