Community Survey - Clarksville Strategic Master Plan
The City of Clarksville is planning for the future through a Strategic Master Plan. The success of the plan will depend upon the vision and input of citizens within our community. This planning effort will analyze existing conditions and develop planning recommendations for each of the following assessment areas: (Please Click on the titles below for a description of the service)
City Government Structure, Services, and Tax Strategies Assessment
- to review the status of the current conditions and the potential to reposition the City for the future.
Cultural / Public Assembly Assessment
- to review the inventory of existing facilities and market needs for public assembly / cultural facilities.
Housing Assessment
- to review the quality and quantity of the residential uses within the community, with specific attention given to the city’s projected aggressive population growth. It will also define the edges of the existing adjacent neighborhoods to the downtown and other urban housing opportunities.
Infrastructure Assessment
- to identify locations and capacities of utilities to the City, status of City services, and limitations to future industrial and commercial development.
Office / Headquarters Assessment
- to review the existing inventory of space, the demand for space, and the opportunities for potential investment and jobs creation.
Real Estate Market Assessment
- to examine the supply and demand trends in the retail / service, office, and housing market segments. It will include Demographic and Economic Base Analysis; Analysis of Competitive Real Estate Market; a general inventory and analysis of competitive real estate within the primary and secondary markets; Economic Modeling and Projections to forecast key economic and social indicators relating to Clarksville’s future growth over the next two decades.
Recreation / Greenway / Waterway Assessment
- to quantify the existing greenways, impact of the new marina, and identify open space within the City and determine potential opportunities for recreational and waterway development.
Retail / Entertainment Assessment
- including a review of existing leisure and entertainment activities, locations and types of retail activity, visitor attractions, visitation patterns, and downtown events.
Transportation / Traffic Assessment
- including a review of existing roads, major and minor arteries, linkages to adjacent areas, key intersections, proposed road improvements, new traffic corridors, pedestrian circulation patterns, sidewalk plans, and collection points. This work will be considered independently from other community infrastructure, yet integrated into the overall comprehensive plan to achieve the goal of reducing congestion and increasing mobility throughout the study area. The transportation assessment will be addressed broadly as a multi-modal analysis that considers all appropriate methods for moving people within and through the community.
Urban Design / City Center Assessment
- to review the physical character and image of the different opportunity zones within the City, the streetscape inventory, activity nodes, patterns of development, landmarks, proposed projects, and the pedestrian experience.
Zoning / Land Use Assessment
- including a review of the existing zoning, land use patterns, and incompatible uses. It will identify current land use trends, smart growth opportunities, impacts to the transportation plan, and land uses that are impediments to proposed development of the City.
