Project Description

The City of Fort Wayne's Community Development Division's Neighborhood Planning and Activation Workgroup worked with the Packard Area Planning Committee to develop Packard 2030, a planning document providing a shared vision and direction for the neighborhoods in the city's southwest 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 1,500 interactions with residents, businesses, and stakeholders and drafted by an advisory committee comprised of neighborhood leaders in the area.

Packard 2030 is a planning document that provides a shared vision of eighteen (18) neighborhoods located in the southwest urban core of the City of Fort Wayne. The Packard 2030 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 Packard area to identify and prioritize needs and aspirations
  • Establish a shared vision that can guide the eighteen (18) 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 Packard area, 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 Packard Neighborhood Plan:

  • Broad River
  • Courts of Woodhurst
  • Creighton Home
  • Fairfield
  • Fairfield Terrace Belmont
  • Fairmont
  • Historic Harrison Hill
  • Historic Oakdale
  • Historic South Wayne
  • Historic Southwood Park
  • Historic West Foster
  • Hoagland Masterson
  • Illsley Place
  • Poplar
  • Sherwood to Pettit
  • West Rudisill
  • Williams Woodland Park
  • Woodhurst

In short, everyone! This plan involves anyone who lives, works, worships, and participates in the neighborhoods in the Packard Planning Area. Direct involvement from the neighborhood's stakeholders and residents is central to developing a neighborhood plan.

To ensure that the neighborhood planning process was developed and handled smoothly, a team of steering committee members, made up of residents and business owners in the Packard Planning Area, met regularly to provide feedback and guidance in the plan development process.

The Packard Area Planning Alliance seeks to enhance the quality of life in the area by engaging a diverse and inclusive group of stakeholders, developing collaborative partnerships, empowering area neighborhoods through capacity-building, providing an accessible forum for the exchange of ideas and resources, advocating for the interests of area residents and neighborhoods, promoting community investment and pride, celebrating and preserving the area's history and culture, and strategically aligning resources and assets to set and achieve shared goals effectively.

Visit the Packard Area Planning Alliance website HERE

Neighborhood Plan

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