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Strategic Initiatives (Cont.)

Strategic Planning Goal:
Expand public safety through non-enforcement efforts

Strategic Initiatives:
1. Evaluate lighting options that will create improvements in safety for Watauga residents and

visitors within ten years.
2. Continue to review and evaluate the need for the Police Department to respond to calls for

enforcement versus service annually.
3. Evaluate the need for appropriate response staff or enhanced officer training to sufficiently
respond to the growing need for service type calls (i.e.. mental health) annually.

Strategic Planning Goal:
Strengthen future planning

Strategic Initiatives:
1. Complete an update to the Comprehensive Plan every ten years.

2. Conduct an annual review of City ordinances and present an annual schedule for proposed
updates with a complete code review being completed prior to 2026.

3. Complete ordinance rewrites prior to October 2026.
4. Obtain public input on the police and library facility needs, to include project budget

requirements, prior to May 2024.
5. Prepare and submit for Council consideration a permit process and any required ordinance
revisions for Short Term Rental properties.

6. Prepare for further review a phase-in approach for a Street Maintenance Program and

associated fee prior to October 2023.
7. Develop an on-line (website link) for a street maintenance program within seven years.
8. Improve the carbon footprint in the City within 10 years.

9. Review expansion options for the animal control facilities and operations within six years.
10. Improve the walkability and bicycling options in the City within ten years.

11. Evaluate the transition to hybrid or electric vehicles within ten years.
12. Continue to evaluate code compliance processes to improve the overall beautification of

the City within three years.

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