Project Description

The City of Fort Wayne's Community Development Division's Neighborhood Planning and Activation Workgroup worked together with the Northeast Neighborhoods Planning Committee to develop Historic Northeast 2035, a planning document that provides a shared vision and direction for the group of neighborhoods located in the city's northeast urban core. The plan provides strategies for investing in growth, building community, and improving the quality of life for area residents.

The recommendations found in the document were shaped by nearly 1,100 interactions with residents, businesses, and stakeholders and drafted by an advisory committee comprised of neighborhood leaders in the area.

Historic Northeast 2035 is a planning document that provides a shared vision of three (3) neighborhoods located in the northeast urban core of the City of Fort Wayne. The Historic Northeast area is rich in community and character that the community looks to continue to grow into the future. In the following pages, you will find that this plan is created to:

Engage the residents and stakeholders of the Historic Northeast area to identify and prioritize needs and aspirations
Establish a shared vision that can guide the three (3) neighborhoods of the planning area
Celebrate the planning area’s community, character, and unique identity
Develop a set of goals and implementation strategies that will guide planning and development activities, neighborhood design, public improvements, and future investments
Provide guidance to neighborhood associations in the Historic Northeast areas, the City of Fort Wayne, decision-makers, public agencies, developers, investors, for-profit corporations and non-profit corporations

The following neighborhoods are a part of the Historic Northeast Neighborhood Plan:

Forest Park Neighborhood
Northside Neighborhood
North Anthony Neighborhood

Implementation is underway!

Stay up-to-date on the progress of the plan's many projects and programs happening throughout the Historic Northeast neighborhoods.

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Neighborhood Plan

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Historic Northeast 2035 Neighborhood Plan
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If you want to download a readable PDF version of the plan, please click on the link.

Resources

Committee Meeting Agendas

Who's Listening

Michael Terronez

Neighborhood Planner

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Megan Grable

Neighborhood Planner

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Dan Baisden

Community Development Administrator

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City Division

Community Development Division

Timeline

Timeline item 1 - complete

Project Request

Northside Neighborhood requests the City to create a new neighborhood plan which incorporates modern needs of their neighborhood and neighbors.
Timeline item 2 - complete

Project Kickoff and Scope

Forest Park, North Anthony, and Northside Neighborhoods agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding to support the planning process.
Timeline item 3 - complete

Research

Gathering information on who calls the "Historic Northeast" planning area home. Planning staff begins research into demographics, housing, and other data.
Timeline item 4 - complete

Engagement

Online and in-person engagement for residents to provide, feedback for what matters most to their neighborhood(s).
Timeline item 5 - complete

Visioning

Using the engagement results and the Historic Northeast Steering Committee, we begin drafting Goals and Strategies, that will later be adopted. Simultaneously, working on specific Action Steps that can be later pursued for implementation.
Timeline item 6 - complete

Confirming

Engaging the public to review and provide feedback to the visioning efforts guided by the Committee.
Timeline item 7 - complete

Planning

Bringing further conversations and research together to finalize the planning document and action steps, while starting the initiation process of the adoption of the Goals and Strategies.
Timeline item 8 - complete

Plan Adoption

Historic Northeast Neighborhood 2035 is adopted as an amendment to the All In Allen Comprehensive Plan.
Timeline item 9 - active

Implementation

Through further engagement and community input, the three neighborhoods and City staff work on implementing some of the Action Steps guided by the planning area.

Plan Alignment

All In Allen

Chapter 4 [Goal 1]: Encourage compatible infill development and redevelopment in the Urban Infill and Priority Investment Areas

Chapter 6 [Goal 1]: Support and Strengthen Complete Neighborhoods

1.1 Promote the creation of complete neighborhood areas through compact development, increased density, and infill
1.2 Support historic preservation efforts
1.3 Encourage adaptive reuse
1.4 Strengthen existing neighborhoods and revitalize declining and middle-and low-income neighborhoods
1.5 Enhance a neighborhood’s sense of place
1.6 Encourage neighborhood activation and planning

[Goal 2]: Enable sustainable, diverse, and accessible housing choices along with creative design and development solutions throughout Allen County to meet the needs of all residents

2.1 Promote diverse and creative housing solutions
2.2 Promote the use of renewable energy resources and green infrastructure
2.3 Promote accessible, attainable, and stable housing

Chapter 7 [Goal 1]: Ensure all areas of Fort Wayne and other Allen County communities can prosper and meet the projected employment demand

1.2 Support equitably-balanced economic investment and reinvestment
1.3 Support business development and expansion, and new business attraction

[Goal 2]: Continue to invest in Fort Wayne and outlying communities to improve the quality of place

2.1 Support vibrant activity centers
2.2 Identify and enhance key community, sports, and tourism assets
2.3 Enhance the use of the three rivers, especially in the Fort Wayne urban core

[Goal 3]: Coordinate key infrastructure and transportation improvements with local economic development efforts

3.1 Ensure sufficient infrastructure and transportation capacity
3.2 Maintain and expand key transportation assets

[Goal 4]: Support efforts to continue to create a welcoming, business-friendly, and inclusive community that fosters entrepreneurship, innovation, and business growth

4.1 Support targeted business attraction
4.2 Develop and support innovation hubs where anchor institutions and companies are concentrated and support new business start-ups, business incubators, and accelerators
4.4 Support and facilitate the development of workforce and student housing
4.5 Support inclusivity and diversity
4.6 Strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem

Chapter 8 [Goal 1]: Support high-quality infrastructure and systems for all transportation modes that align with community needs and facilitate economic development

1.1 Improve connectivity and capacity
1.2 Plan for and coordinate transportation improvements with economic development priorities

[Goal 2]: Plan for and integrate new transportation technology and emerging best practices into the transportation network

2.1 Improve and establish regulations, design standards, and policies
2.2 Prioritize the inclusion of renewable energy technologies and low environmental impact transportation modes and infrastructure planning

[Goal 3]: Increase safe, attractive, multimodal transportation opportunities across the entire Allen County area

3.1 Prioritize the development of safe, attractive “complete streets”
3.2 Prioritize public transportation

Chapter 9 [Goal 4]: Encourage collaboration between stakeholders, organizations, and governmental entities to strengthen environmental resiliency and reduce the impact of future infrastructure

4.1 Encourage green infrastructure and low-impact design
4.2 Facilitate environmental stewardship collaboration
4.3 Encourage environmentally responsible and sustainable infrastructure construction
4.4 Support environmental resiliency outreach and education

[Goal 5]: Ensure adequate public safety services through increased collaboration as part of planning for new growth and development

5.1 Encourage expanded public safety input in development
5.2 Promote property maintenance and crime prevention techniques to improve perceptions and reduce crime risks
5.3 Promote prepared and resilient communities

[Goal 6]: Improve public safety outcomes

6.1 Support public safety community outreach
6.2 Strengthen public safety collaboration

Chapter 11 [Goal 1]: Ensure all residents have equitable access to parks, natural areas, and trails to meet increasing and future demand

1.2 Prioritize the maintenance and improvement of existing parks
1.3 Continue to promote and strategically activate existing parks and river front areas with active and passive recreation opportunities
1.4 Identify resources needed for park, trail, and natural area maintenance, activation, improvement and expansion

[Goal 2]: Provide accessible and connected trails that offer high quality local and regional opportunities for recreation and multimodal transportation

2.1 Collaborate with area communities and trail organizations to expand and enhance trail and greenway systems to create a well connected and comprehensive local and regional system
2.2 Improve trail and trail head safety and amenities
2.3 Support community education on the benefits of trails

[Goal 3]: Encourage community stewardship of natural and environmentally sensitive areas

3.3 Encourage tree canopy expansion and protection

[Goal 4]: Reduce or mitigate impacts of new development on environmentally sensitive areas

4.1 Promote sustainable development practices

[Goal 5]: Improve awareness of outdoor passive and active recreation and local and regional tourism opportunities within our parks, trails, riparian and natural areas

5.1 Encourage additional outreach and engagement to support local and regional recreation and tourism opportunities

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Historic Northeast 2035

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