"Comprehensive Planning for communities is like career or retirement planning for individuals: if you don't set goals for your future and figure out a doable way to get from where you are today to where you want to be, you can be pretty well certain that you won't get there." (Creating a Wise Economy; 2010).
- Estes Forward Comprehensive Plan - 2022 (Click on a chapter number in the table of contents to hyperlink.)
- Estes Forward En Español
- Appendicies Estes Forward CompPlan
- Future Land Use Map
- Community Choices Document
- Visioning Meeting In a Box kit
- Town Administrator Machalek Presentation September 9, 2021
- EVFPD Presentation July 22, 2021
- Community Risk Reduction Plan - National Fire Prevention Association
- CPAW Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
- Logan Simpson Scope of Services
- Logan Simpson Proposal
- Contract: Logan Simpson Consultants
- Contract: Public Engagement-Bang the Table
- Machalek & Hunt Column, February 25, 2021
- Board of County Commissioners Letter of Commitment
- Request for Proposal (RFP)
- RFP Addenda
- Comp Plan Case Studies
The Comprehensive Plan was jointly adopted in 1996 by the Town of Estes Park and Larimer County after extensive community outreach and input. Following adoption of the Comprehensive Plan, the Town and County jointly created the Estes Valley Development Code to implement the Comprehensive Plan, soliciting extensive public input.
The Estes Valley Comprehensive Plan establishes land use, community design, growth management, mobility and circulation, housing, scenic and environmental quality, economic, intergovernmental coordination policies for the Estes Valley. The plan also establishes development guidelines for seven distinct planning areas.
Estes Park Comprehensive Plan
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: The Planning Process
- Chapter 2: Planning the Valley's Future
- Chapter 3: Economic Overview
- Chapter 4: Land Use
- Chapter 5: Mobility and Circulation
- Chapter 6: Community-Wide Policies
- Chapter 7: Action Plan
- Appendix 1: Economic Profile
- Appendix 2: Resource Information
The Stanley Historic District Master Plan sets the vision for development within the 75 acres surrounding the Stanley Hotel. In addition to architectural standards for this area, protected view corridors are also established to ensure unique views of the Stanley Hotel are preserved for future generations.