Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Budget 06-07: Reinvesting in Hesperia

The Fiscal Year 2006-07 budget for the City of Hesperia will include new programs to improve quality of life in the city and map out the direction for Hesperia for the next 20 years.

The Hesperia City Council indicated its interest in the programs at a mid-year budget workshop prior to last week’s council meeting.

The General Plan for the city of Hesperia maps out zoning and long-term goals for what the city will look like, decades in the future. But the future is a moving target and the current plan is increasingly less relevant.

“The general plan is already 15 years old, it was done in 1991,” said Tom Harp, the city’s Deputy Director of Development Services. “The environmental impact [study] that was done is 15 years old as well. [There have] been a lot of changes in the laws. There’s been a lot of growth in the community.

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