The City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, which is the second-largest city in Colorado, is located at the base of Pikes Peak – America’s Mountain. For the first time in 15 years, the City Council, developed a comprehensive plan for the city’s future. The “PlanCOS” campaign was a two-year process that asked citizens, “What do you want Colorado Springs to be in 10 years?” From new shopping areas, community centers, housing choices, employment, educational opportunities, trails, recreation facilities, and redevelopment, to a re-invented Downtown, the PlanCOS set the stage for the city’s future.

As a long-range vision, the Plan sets forth the values intended to realize as the City changes over the next 20 to 30 years and ties those values to land use, economic development, community design and infrastructure upgrade strategies and recommendations.