2020 Comprehensive Plan

This 2020 Town of Grand Lake Comprehensive Plan update will continue to provide Town officials, residents, businesses, land owners, project applicants and developers with a broad policy tool for guiding decisions concerning land use and future growth, and serve as the foundation for land development regulations, capital improvement programming, and more detailed functional plans and studies. 

Vision Statement 

"The Town of Grand Lake will protect its natural environment, preserve its history, and enhance its economic vitality to ensure quality of life for its residents, businesses, and visitors “

The Planning Process

In 2017, Town representatives and a group of local citizens began the process of reviewing the 2006 plan document for updates. In October 2019, the Town Board of Trustees appointed a task force to “facilitate the update of the Town’s Comprehensive Plan from initial selection of consultant to final adoption.” The Task Force comprised of a Town Board member, two members of the Town’s Planning Commission, the Town Planner and several community members.

A grant awarded for the project by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) led to the selection of a consultant team in December 2019 to prepare the plan update. Multiple task force meetings were held during 2020, providing community input and public outreach assistance for the project. Task Force members helped publicize and staff two “Winter Bingo” exhibit events in early 2020, along with a public workshop held at the Grand Lake Community House on February 25, 2020. The public workshop, structured as a half-day open house event, provided community participants an opportunity to complete several exercises relating to updating the plan’s vision, goals and objectives, and confirming value statements created by Grand Lake Heart & Soul, a community initiative supported by the Orton Family Foundation. 

The planning process culminated with the presentation of the draft 2020 Town of Grand Lake Comprehensive Plan for adoption at Planning Commission and Town Board public hearings in November, 2020. The formal adoption of the 2020 Comprehensive Land Use Plan occurred during a public meeting December 2, 2020, and was ratified on December 14, 2020.

Plan Organization

The 2020 Grand Lake Comprehensive Plan is designed to provide guidance for decision making in an easy to navigate, summary-style format structured around four lettered sections: Introduction, Plan Influences, Policy Framework and Plan Implementation. The entire plan document is searchable with hyperlinks embedded into the Table of Contents. Page numbers within each plan section are highlighted with a “pinecone” symbol using a different color shade for ease of reference.