Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Planning Commission has unanimously recommended approval of the Land Use and Transportation Plan during a special meeting Monday at City Hall.

The Planning Commission recommended approval stressing that the plan was a living document and could be modified to reflect changing conditions in the future.

The plan anticipates a population growth of approximately 7,000 people between now and 2040. To accommodate this growth, the city will need to add at least 800 acres of residential housing, 170 acres of commercial land and 290 acres of industrial development.

Marty Shukert, planner for RDG Planning and Design and principal author of the plan, said about 30 percent of the residential growth is anticipated in northeast Jamestown with 50 percent in the southwest. The remaining 20 percent would occur in existing residential areas with vacant areas and in west-central Jamestown.

Additional streets would be needed to connect areas of future development and some areas where development has already occurred and adequate infrastructure does not exist.

The highest priority street project in the LUTP is a street connecting 25th Street Southwest between Walmart and the Buffalo Mall to Jamestown Regional Medical Center.

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Jamestown  (CSi)  The Public Hearing regarding the City of Jamestown’s Land Use & Transportation Plan will be held at City Hall, on Monday June 22, 2015, at 5-p.m.

The City Engineer’s Office will take any comments received  and prepare a revised plan expanding the CTIP to the 20-25 year horizon and hopefully present it at the August Planning Commission Meeting and the Planning and Zoning Committee Meeting, and finally present it for approval and submission to the NDDOT at the September Regular City Council Meeting.