Grandview 2030, the City's Comprehensive Plan 

The City of Grandview, located in southern Jackson County, Missouri, has found itself at the beginning of a new chapter of prosperity. This is not accidental, as strategic planning and leadership have been the driving cause. Much of the progress we have seen is thanks to the hard-work of those before us that dedicated their time and energy into the strategies set forth in the last Comprehensive Plan. These types of all-encompassing guiding documents begin with the community, for the community, to create the future Grandview citizens expect and deserve.       

Since Beyond 2000... A Vision for Grandview, Missouri, the City’s last Comprehensive Plan, many of the goals outlined have been accomplished, but some are still in progress. Nearly two decades later, it is now time to update that plan and establish the next set of expectations for the City to strive toward over the coming decade. Grandview 2030 builds off the successes that were accomplished since the turn of the millennium with the expectations to make Grandview not just a good place to live, but a great place to call home.

The plan began with months of community outreach engagement exercises. The community identified five priority areas on which the new plan would be built: Infrastructure,  Parks and Recreation, Environment and Sustainability, Housing and Economic Development. Next, the Comprehensive Plan Committee was formed to help guide staff and provide recommendations and ideas for the unique challenges the community identified during the outreach process. This committee was key to ensuring that the plan accurately reflects the community's true needs, wants and desires. Over the course of many months, the Committee worked closely with staff to review each of the five topics and brainstorm creative solutions to address each one.

This plan aims to take a proactive approach to reaching Grandview’s fullest potential through strategic planning with practical expectations. Grandview 2030 is here and the community is ready to take the next step toward creating a better environment for our families, friends, neighbors, visitors and all those who come after.       

Go Grandview (Currently Underway)

Getting Involved

Our partners at BikeWalkKC have designed an interactive mapping program that will allow you to provide feedback in the form of identifying where you want to go. Use the tutorial to familiarize yourself with the map's tools. Please leave comments for us to review for clarity to the challenges or opportunities you face when attempting to walk or bike the city.

Online Mapping Tool: https://grandview-prod.herokuapp.com/

Home Street Home exhibit - This exhibit will be located at City Hall the week of September 13 - 17, 2021. It will also visit The View in the month of October. For information on the exhibit, click this link: 

HomeStreetHome

Other activities included in this phase will be scheduled and announced for participation via  Grandview social media platforms. 

Contact Dave McCumber, City Planner for additional questions at 816.316.4822 or dmccumber@grandview.org. 

Phase III

The final phase of this project consists of creating a wayfinding signage system that connects the important destinations shared by residents during the plan's community engagement efforts. This wayfinding system will be implemented overtime, with the first phase occurring in 2023. Common destinations are, but not limited to;

1. The View
2. The Little Blue River Trail
3. Meadowmere Park
4. Grandview High School
5. City Hall
6. Downtown Grandview
7. The Harry Truman Farm Home
8. The Presidential Trail

While the Priority Network identified in the plan may designate a certain segment of street to be redesigned to better accommodate pedestrian or bike traffic, this signage project does not relate to that work. Down the road, when additional funding is acquired to support those larger projects identified in the plan, like street replace/redesign, then that more significant work will occur.

Plan Funding: 

In the Summer of 2020, the city applied for and received an Active Living Communities of Practice grant from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. These grant funds were to be used to create a project that supports health, prosperity, and safety through increasing active living lifestyles in the community. 

In the following Spring of 2021, the City of Grandview was awarded an additional sum of money to continue it's efforts by moving to a second phase of the project centered around community engagement. 

(All funds used for this project are from federal and state grants. The City of Grandview has no local money involved.) 

Vision Zero Action Plan

Appendix A. Public and Stakeholder Input Details

Appendix B. Data and Crash Analysis Details

Appendix C. Plan and Policy Review

Appendix D. Safety Strategies Documentation and Countermeasures Matrix

Appendix E. Catalyst Project Profiles

Appendix F. Funding Sources Matrix

In the Fall of 2019, the City of Grandview teamed up with Gould Evans, a Kansas City-based architecture and planning firm, to begin working on what has been termed, A Stronger Grandview. This project takes an approach to understanding how the community builds wealth, given its land use and development patterns weighted against public investment costs in infrastructure. This planning study analyzed the relationship between the different forms of private sector development patterns compared to public investment in infrastructure. 

Within the last decade, a discussion began amongst professional planners, engineers, and advocates regarding a city's inability to keep up with the costs of infrastructure liabilities. Largely, we have found cities across the United States have overbuilt their infrastructure systems. Often the private developments that rely on public streets, underground utilities, and much more, do not provide enough tax revenues to pay for the systems and services they require. Grandview is not immune from this complex and challenging circumstance, nor is it alone. This growing concern for understanding how a community creates wealth is becoming a larger discussion nationally.    

The City adopted its new comprehensive plan, Grandview 2030, on July 1, 2020. This plan was written with some of the core recommendations outlined in A Stronger Grandview. The next step is updating and adopting the City's Zoning and Subdivision Regulations. These documents are the rules for building in Grandview. These regulations have created the development patterns that we see today.

A Stronger Grandview is the start. It is a snapshot of where we are today and it provides direction on how to build economic prosperity and equity for the community. 

A Stronger Grandview Land Use Study

A Stronger Grandview

A Stronger Grandview - Grandview Land Use Analysis

Grandview Housing Study (Executive Summary)

In 2017, the City partnered with Development Strategies, a housing market and demographic analysis firm, to perform a housing study for the Community. Some of the key takeaways from the study were to diversify the Grandview housing stock, build a diverse, equitable and inclusive community, create unique neighborhoods and attract new housing to meet demand. For a copy of the full study, contact the Development Services Division of Community Development at (816) 316-4817.

Intent 

The Blue Ridge Boulevard Corridor Study, sponsored by the Mid-America Regional Council’s Planning Sustainable Places program, analyzed and recommended active transportation, aesthetic and placemaking improvements for a stretch of Blue Ridge Boulevard extending from Interstate 49 to Grandview Road in the city of Grandview, Missouri. As a major commercial corridor in Grandview, Blue Ridge Boulevard is an important arterial roadway that primarily serves to move high volumes of vehicular traffic to the various suburban shopping centers and businesses located in the area.

The intent of this study was to:
     • Enhance the corridor both aesthetically and functionally to be safer and
        inviting to all types of mobility.
     • Determine feasibility of roadway configurations / realignment to provide
        bicycle / pedestrian facilities.
     • Develop approach for enhanced transit accommodations.
     • Draft development design standards to encourage pedestrian / transit oriented
       development.

Intent 

This study had two main goals:

Goal 1: To provide a more inclusive, planned infrastructure system for visitors,
businesses and residents who live around the corridor and to have better access
to services, restaurants, community assets and transit stops that currently exist
(or will exist) within the defined corridor area.

Goal 2: This design guide will facilitate a vision for these improvements with
input from adjacent businesses and residents who use this corridor the most.
Provisions of complete street design elements, inclusionary corridor access from
adjacent residential areas, current / future transit infrastructure enhancements
would all be vetted and evaluated by the process.

Blue Ridge Boulevard Corridor: A Pedestrian, Streetscape and Amenity Corridor Design Guide.

 M-150 Corridor Plan

The Highway 150 corridor through southern Grandview is a two-mile, largely undeveloped corridor that represents the final opportunity for large-scale development in the city. The City of Grandview recognizes that development along the corridor will have major impacts on the City’s character, economic vitality, and transportation and open space networks. This Plan is intended to create a framework to enable the City, in partnership with the property owners, developers, and the community at large, to realize the enormous potential of this corridor.

 M-150 Corridor Framework Plan

 This Framework Plan describes a long-term vision for the  Highway 150 corridor as a unique regional destination, a strong and sustainable economic engine, and an interconnected community framed by open space. Together with the Implementation Plan and Design Guidelines, it offers a framework for the long-term development of land along the M-150 highway into a vibrant, mixed use corridor.

M-150 Corridor Plan Design Standards

M-150 Corridor Implementation Plan