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Legacy Development Guide
The City-County Planning Board is one of the organizations in our community charged with planning for our future. The legislation that created the Planning Board authorizes it to prepare a comprehensive plan to guide the development of our community. The comprehensive plan is a general, long-range policy guide for decisions concerning the overall growth and development of the Forsyth County and its eight municipalities.
The current comprehensive plan, the Legacy Development Guide, was adopted by Forsyth County and all eight of its municipalities in 2001. To ensure broad public involvement in creating the plan, a 21-member Citizens Steering Committee was created and focus groups were formed to develop a future vision and to look at particular issues. Numerous public meetings and discussions with stakeholder groups and organizations were held throughout the several year planning process.
Click on the links in the table below to read each of the chapters in Legacy, or click on one of the following links to view the Legacy Summary [pdf/2.77mb] or to see a slide show [pdf] about the key elements in Legacy.
By adopting Legacy, Forsyth County and each of its municipalities embraced ambitious goals for future development touching on all aspects of the community. The scores of citizens who helped develop the Legacy plan envisioned growing smarter in safe, livable neighborhoods where involved citizens support excellence in education and a vigorous economy with a commitment to preserving environmental quality and our unique community character. The community, however, will not measure the success of Legacy by the vision, but rather by its realization. To that end the Legacy plan proposes goals, policies and action agendas designed to implement that vision. One of the action items calls for an annual progress report on implementing Legacy. The Legacy Oversight Committee, created by the Planning Board, met in the Fall of 2002 to assess implementation of the plan in the first year since its adoption and has issued its first annual "report card" to the community. Read the Legacy Oversight Committee’s reports: the Legacy Comprehensive Plan Update, 2008 [pdf/430kb/4p] and the Benchmarking Our Future - Update 2006 [pdf/99kb] and its Executive Summary, Legacy's Benchmark Report - Executive Summary [pdf/71.4kb].
Since the adoption of the 2001 Legacy Plan, a great deal of progress has been made. The majority of action items have been completed and the remaining items are either no longer relevant or are in need of an update. Taking those issues into consideration, the City-County Planning Board began in the fall of 2010 to work on the Legacy 2030 Update.
Why a Legacy Update? There are three good reasons: 1) There is a need for an updated action plan and policy guide, 2) There are new local and national issues and trends that have come the forefront in Forsyth County and 3) Changing demographics in our county. To learn more about the Legacy 2030 Update visit the web site at http://www.legacy2030.com/, read about and give your input on the Legacy Update. The site allows you to read the Legacy 2030 Update chapters as they are drafted by City-County Planning staff. Click on the link to the chapter discussion and become part of the Legacy 2030 Update process.
Questions? Please contact Marylin Moniquette-John, Project Planner, at (336)747-7059 or write to:
City-County Planning Board
P.O. Box 2511
Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102
Fax: (336)748-3163
revised: 8/5/2011
rev: 3/7/08
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