What is Legacy?

2. Current Comprehensive Plan • for Forsyth County and Winston-Salem. • Adopted in 2001 by Forsyth County and • its 8 municipalities. • Focuses on how best to be accommodate • the physical growth of the community • and maintain or improve quality of life What is Legacy?

3. Most Action Items completed. Many new trends and issues. 3. 120,000 more people by 2030 Why Legacy 2030 Update?

4. April 26, 2011 --- Milton Rhodes Center • June 7, 2011 --- Anderson Center, WSSU • September 20, 2011 --- Joel Coliseum • May 2012 – 7 meetings all over Forsyth County • Many discussions with community groups • Website participation---legacy2030.com • 450 attendees; 21,000 website hits; several hundred comments • Planning Board served as steering committee • for this update 2011-12 Public Input Sessions On Legacy 2030 Draft

5. Introduction Legacy Vision and Goals Updated Trends Growth Management Land Use Transportation Economic Development Environmental Quality and Sustainability Healthy, Complete, and Equitable Communities Community Character Downtown and the Center City Neighborhoods and Towns Rural Character Area Plans Key Public Investments Legacy2030 Outline

6. Three Themes • of Update: • Fiscal • Responsibility • Sustainable • Growth • Livable • Design • ….In Urban, • Suburban, • Town, and • Rural settings

7. Legacy 2030 Growth Management Map • Full range of residential development choices • Focus higher density and mixed use in places • where it makes the most sense

8. Legacy Update Adoption Process: Planning Board Public Hearing Planning Board Action Elected Body Public Hearings, Consideration and Adoption; City of Winston-Salem Forsyth County Towns and Villages

10. 2010 Forsyth County Existing Land Use

11. NC one of highest growth States • Piedmont Crescent highest growth • portion of State • State Demographer projections for • Triad, Forsyth County • Diversifying household types, • residential needs • Generation X and Y showing more • urban living preferences Trends Affecting the Update

12. Gas prices affecting commuting • patterns • We will run out of serviceable land • shortly after 2030 if outward expansion • occurs similar to last several decades Trends Affecting the Update

13. Gas prices affecting commuting • patterns • We will run out of serviceable land • shortly after 2030 if outward expansion • occurs similar to last several decades • Market demands will continue for lower • density residential, but there is more • interest emerging in other housing • types Trends Affecting the Update

14. 2010 Forsyth County Acreage by Land Use

16. Gas prices affecting commuting • patterns • We will run out of serviceable land • shortly after 2030 if outward expansion • occurs similar to last several decades • Market demands will continue for lower • density residential, but there is more • interest emerging in other housing • types • Compact, mixed use development • returns significantly more net tax • revenue per acre; costs less per unit • to serve Trends Affecting the Update

17. Future Land Use Map (composite of Area Plan Land Use Plans)

18. Tax Base Analysis by Growth Management Area

19. Developed Land Area Has Been Expanding Faster than the Rate of Population Growth