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Winner of the American Planning Association’s 2009 Comprehensive Planning Award, the Imagine Brownsville Comprehensive Plan was delivered by the Task Force to the Brownsville City Commission on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, and it was adopted. In addition, the City Commission passed a resolution at that same meeting that acknowledged all the work done by the community and the many volunteers involved. The implementation plan is now beginning with the launch of the newly created United Brownsville Coordinating Board and the signing of the Brownsville Borderplex United Proclamation on January 21, 2010 by representatives from the City of Brownsville, the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation (GBIC), the Brownsville Independent School District, the Brownsville Navigation District, the Brownsville Public Utilities Board, the Brownsville Community Improvement Corp (BCIC) and the University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College.
The plan was designed with two goals in mind: first, to establish our community’s vision objectives for a ten-year planning horizon; and second, to develop an implementable strategy to help reach these targeted objectives by leveraging our community’s natural, institutional, human, economic, and infrastructure resources in an effective, competitive and sustainable way.
The City of Brownsville, Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation, Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation and the Imagine Brownsville Task Force worked diligently together, along with many public entities, non-governmental organizations, as well as many community individuals. We wish to thank all of our residents, businesses and institutions who joined in this unprecedented effort to imagine and develop a future for our City – how we will live, learn, work and play in Brownsville for years to come.
Our website has many features and sections to provide you with project information, news and updates, project files, media and communications to inform you about the comprehensive plan. We invite you to spend some time exploring what we have to offer and thank you for visiting our website.
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