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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.

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