City of London Comprehensive Plan

"Comprehensive plans provide an overarching vision for the future of the community"

The City of London is updating the Comprehensive Plan!

The purpose of a comprehensive plan is to create a vision and set goals for the future that will inform how the community will be shaped over the next ten years. The final plan will be a citywide, long-range policy document that focuses on development and growth in the City of London.

All updates and information regarding the Comprehensive Plan update for the City of London will be posted on this page. Check the City of London Facebook page for announcements about engagement opportunities!

To complete this project, the City of London has retained the services of OHM Advisors, a professional architecture, engineering, and planning firm in Columbus, Ohio. OHM applies a unique approach when developing plans, integrating public input, market analysis, urban design, marketing and branding, and real-estate assessment into the overall recommendations and strategies of the Comprehensive Plan. The goal is to create a balanced plan informed by technical research and public opinion. More information about OHM can be found at OHM Advisors (ohm-advisors.com).

What the plan is not:

  • Regulations

  • Immoveable

  • Finely-detailed

  • Budget-related

  • Immediately implemented

Examples of what the plan is not:
"The city will pave insert specific street name here and fix the potholes."
"We will build X-amount of houses that cost no more than $X-dollars."
"We will open a insert specific store name here"

What the plan is:

  • Guidelines

  • Flexible

  • Generalized overview

  • Long-ranging

Examples of what the plan is:
"The city will grow by X% of residents over the next X-number of years"
"We will add X-number of miles of bike and hike trails over the next X-number of years."
"We want to add insert a specific medical field here coverage to our city by X-timeframe."

Feedback

There will be multiple times where the public will be asked to engage and submit feedback that will then be utilized to help shape the comprehensive plan.
If you have questions, comments, or want to provide feedback outside of the planned engagement events, you may submit your thoughts using the form here.

Feedback Form

Committees

There are currently three committees involved in the creation of the comprehensive plan, the Steering Committee, and two Stakeholder groups. One Stakeholder group is focused on housing & development (HD), and the other is focused on community, health and safety (CHS). These Stakeholder groups share information and findings with the Steering Committee.

As part of the planning process, OHM, with collaboration from the city of London, assembled a Steering Committee to guide the planning process and preparation of the final plan. The role of the steering committee is to provide guidance and direction to city staff and the OHM Advisors team as the plan is developed, give direction on how to engage the community, act as liaisons to community groups and organizations, and act as stewards of the plan during the official adoption process