City of Forada Contact Information

Hometown Planning does not work with the City of Forada regarding day-to-day zoning or any other city matters.

​To contact the CIty, call the City Clerk (Jo Kluver) at 320-762-9772 or by email at: cityofforada@gmail.com.

​For information about the City's updated Comprehensive Plan (which was developed with the assistance of Hometown Planning), see below or contact the City directly.

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The Forada Comprehensive Plan was adopted
​by the Forada City Council
on July 8, 2019. ​​

Download FINAL Adopted Comprehensive Plan

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Project Description

In the summer of 2018, the City of Forada hired Hometown Planning to assist in the development of the City's first Comprehensive Plan. Work on the project has been ongoing since August 2018. A public hearing on the draft Comprehensive Plan for the CIty of Forada was held June 17, 2019. The City Council adopted the Comprehensive Plan on July 8, 2019. 

A Comprehensive Plan is a land use planning document that attempts to lay out a vision for the future of a community and a plan for future action.  Typically, there are several areas of focus within a “Comp Plan” - how land is used for public and private development, transportation infrastructure, natural resource management, economic development, coordination of governance and others. It asks, and answers, the following basic questions:

1. Where are we now? What are the primary issues that the City is facing today? What is going right? What could be improved?
2. How did we get here? What are the driving economic and social forces that have made the City what it is today?
3. Where are we going? What does the community envision for the future? What kinds of things does it want to see in 20 years?
4. How will we get there? What actions can citizens, businesses and government take to make the County a better place to live and work?

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Public Involvement

The process of developing the City's Comprehensive Plan will include many opportunities for public involvement:

1. Public Meetings: The Forada City Council in response to public input will serve as the primary body to develop, discuss and review drafts and over the course of the project. Residents were notified of the kickoff meeting, held September 17, 2018. Notice was provided for a second public meeting June 17, 2019  to review the preliminary draft of the Comprehensive Plan. 
2. Stakeholder Involvement: Hometown Planning staff reviewed responses from a survey of City residents and interviewed individuals and stakeholders to gather their input on the issues that they see facing the City to inform the development of the plan.
3. Webpage: This webpage will serve as a way for the public to review the progress on the development of the Plan, including drafts of the Plan as it is developed, summaries of the outcome of the various meetings, and to see when upcoming public meetings are to be held. You will also find information on the webpage for the City of Forada, www.foradacity.com.

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Public Meetings

Public Hearing, June 17, 2019: The public hearing to take comment on the draft Comprehensive Plan for the City of Forada was held at City Hall, on Monday, June 17 and remained open for comments until July 8, 2019. At that time, the plan was officially adopted by the City Council.
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Public Meeting, September 17, 2018: The first meeting to review the planning process and gather input from the community was held on Monday, September 17th. After a brief presentation, questions and discussion followed on the issues that community members see as the most important  to address now and over the next 1-10 years.

City Council, October 8, 2018: The responses from the community survey were reviewed with the City Council and residents in attendance. 

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