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Omaha is seeking input from residents on how the city should develop as it nears the limits of undeveloped land. The city expects to run out of undeveloped land in around two decades, Deputy Planning Director Eric Englund said. Since spring 2024, the Omaha Planning Department has been working on a fresh comprehensive city plan, the first since 1997. While there have been some updates to the current comprehensive plan since 1997, Englund said Omaha is overdue for a new one. Every two decades is ideal, he said. That’s how long he expects the new plan to guide Omaha’s development decisions.Omaha cannot expand much further to the southwest due to the floodplain, he said.”When we talk about future developable ground, really it’s in this northwest portion of our city,” Englund said.Things change fast. The area around 132nd and Maple was about as far as Omaha had grown when the last city comprehensive plan was published, he said.Until the end of March, the city is collecting input through the “We Make Omaha” survey. The city wants input on housing types, guiding principles and much more. All Omahans can take the survey, but 5,000 were randomly chosen and sent postcards for a proper sample. Fewer than 400 have responded, Deputy Planning Director Kellie Johnston-Dorsey told KETV. The hold-outs were recently mailed paper surveys.You can find the survey here. There are two links to the same survey. If you received a postcard, choose “postcard code survey.”People who take the survey have an option to enter a drawing to have lunch with Mayor John Ewing Jr.
Omaha is seeking input from residents on how the city should develop as it nears the limits of undeveloped land.
The city expects to run out of undeveloped land in around two decades, Deputy Planning Director Eric Englund said.
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Since spring 2024, the Omaha Planning Department has been working on a fresh comprehensive city plan, the first since 1997.
While there have been some updates to the current comprehensive plan since 1997, Englund said Omaha is overdue for a new one. Every two decades is ideal, he said. That’s how long he expects the new plan to guide Omaha’s development decisions.
Omaha cannot expand much further to the southwest due to the floodplain, he said.
“When we talk about future developable ground, really it’s in this northwest portion of our city,” Englund said.
Things change fast. The area around 132nd and Maple was about as far as Omaha had grown when the last city comprehensive plan was published, he said.
Until the end of March, the city is collecting input through the “We Make Omaha” survey.
The city wants input on housing types, guiding principles and much more.
All Omahans can take the survey, but 5,000 were randomly chosen and sent postcards for a proper sample. Fewer than 400 have responded, Deputy Planning Director Kellie Johnston-Dorsey told KETV. The hold-outs were recently mailed paper surveys.
You can find the survey here. There are two links to the same survey. If you received a postcard, choose “postcard code survey.”
People who take the survey have an option to enter a drawing to have lunch with Mayor John Ewing Jr.
