Strategies

A sustainable future for Greater Kansas City?

The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) and countless partners, community organizations and citizens have been talking about sustainability for years. Now a vision has been illustrated that paints a picture of a new future for Greater Kansas City.

The purpose of Imagine KC is to solicit feedback about this vision from citizens across the region — including you.

So what is the vision? It's actually a set of 13 strategies divided up into three groups. Click on the groups below to learn more about what it means to be a Vibrant, Connected and Green region:

  • VIBRANT: A region of vibrant places
    • Maintain and develop healthy downtowns and vibrant places throughout the region.
    • Focus on revitalization and infill projects in older communities.
    • Develop dynamic corridors of economic, business and housing activity along major transit routes.
    • Create major employment centers at strategic locations to maximize the region's competitive advantages.
  • CONNECTED: A connected region
    • Develop a robust transit system.
    • Develop a regional system of trails.
    • Maintain our existing roads to a high standard.
    • Maximize the use of the region's existing highway capacity.
  • GREEN: A green region
    • Promote energy conservation and use of renewable resources.
    • Develop programs to maintain drinking water quality, reduce runoff and improve stream quality.
    • Generate less solid waste and recycle or reuse the waste we do generate.
    • Improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
    • Protect and restore the region's natural amenities.

To read the full vision, click here (file opens in PDF format).