Great Expectations: Shreveport-Caddo 2030 Master Plan
Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission of Caddo Parish, Shreveport, LA
Shreveport envisions its future: Grow smarter, celebrate uniqueness, invest in people and place
The Great Expectations Plan puts the City of Shreveport and adjacent areas in Caddo Parish on a new strategic path with its first comprehensive plan in 50 years. Goody Clancy led the planning process and prepared the plan for the more than 200,000 residents in the 125-square mile jurisdiction of the Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission of Caddo Parish. The planning process touched thousands of people through a robust community engagement program and created a constituency for implementing the plan.
The plan is based on four themes:
- Grow Smarter: Strategies to promote development in urban rather than suburban and rural areas included development of a Unified Development Code; creation of walkable, mixed-use centers and urban villages; public transportation improvements; design standards for high quality development
- Celebrate Uniqueness: Clear steps for revitalization of Shreveport’s downtown, the only truly urban downtown in the region
- Invest in People: An economic development program focused on human capital with investment in developing, retaining, and attracting talent
- Invest in Place: Revitalizing disinvested areas by eliminating blight and creating a professionally-staffed redevelopment authority; investment in infrastructure, including water and sewer master plans, green infrastructure for drainage, and an asset management system
IMPLEMENTATION
- Continuation of Community Advisory Group as an implementation committee
- Hiring of Master Plan Implementation Coordinator
- Hiring of consultant to prepare a Unified Development Code
- Discussions to create the redevelopment authority
- Grants to fund a series of district plans based on the master plan: Cross Bayou Plan (EPA), Choice Neighborhood Plan (HUD), Transit Plan update (DOT), Downtown Alternative Transportation Study (AICP grant), Shreveport Common (NEA)
- Historic Preservation and Downtown Demolition ordinances
- Pavement management system (first part of an asset management system)
- Additional community gardens
- Pursuit of grants for Green Network Implementation
