Riverside City History
Master Plan

The Master Plan of a city is an extensive and exhaustive process. It involves city leaders, planning experts and local citizens. It is a planning process that combines economic analysis, infrastructure assessments, financial planning and community input. It is a process with the goal of developing documents and plans to discover a communities assets, tap into its potential and systematically and consciously plan for its future.

Recognizing that the city of Riverside has tremendous potential, leaders and citizens initialized a planning process to establishing a strategy for development over the next 25 years. The most important goal of this Master Plan is to preserve Riverside's core characteristics while improving the portions that detract from the community's vision of a better future. Download the complete Master Plan, a 13MB Adobe Acrobat document. For users with slower internet connections, the Master Plan is also available from the Document Center as smaller, individual "chapters."

Every recommendation within the Master Plan came from the citizens of Riverside. There are no recommendations within this document that were not supported or promoted by the larger community.

Five main achievement areas were identified:
1. Enhance Community Amenities,
2. Protect Community Treasures
3. Provide Proper Governance
4. Improve Riverside's Image
5. Improve Riverside's Appearance

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