Simi Valley Ready to Begin Focusing Efforts on Vision 2020
The sweeping concepts have been distilled into concrete steps.
Two years in the planning, Simi Valley’s ambitious road map for the future, Vision 2020, has been completed. And city staffers have prepared an “implementation and monitoring plan.”
The implementation plan lists who is responsible for getting the ball rolling on Vision 2020’s dozens of recommendations and sets out a timeline for each task.
The City Council will review the plan at a meeting today.
Vision 2020 is an ambitious document that envisions the ideal Simi Valley in the year 2020. Guided by a community survey, a daylong citizens workshop and a year of committee meetings, the 166-page document addresses development, economics, the environment, regional issues, safety and social concerns.
The document’s recommendations deal with preserving the safe, small-town feel of this 100,000-resident city, even as its population is projected to jump.
Among the recommendations are: keeping a ratio of at least one sworn police officer to every 1,000 residents, attracting high-paying jobs, preserving open space, boosting the lagging Tapo Street shopping district and opening a regional shopping mall and keeping growth in check.
In the plan, the police officer-to-resident ratio was assigned a high priority--meaning it could be implemented within a year to five years.
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