City of Englewood Strategic Plan Survey

Your Voice Helps Shape Englewood’s Future

In December 2025 and January 2026, more than 300 community members shared ideas about what should matter most for the City of Englewood in the years ahead. Another 36 residents went deeper through four focus groups. On January 24, City Council reviewed this community feedback and began outlining a new strategic plan to guide Englewood into the future. Now, we want to hear from you!

This survey gives you the opportunity to help refine and prioritize the outcome areas identified by City Council. You’ll be asked to rank what’s most important, share your thoughts on whether sense of place and affordability should remain part of livability or stand on their own, and let us know if any major areas of focus are missing.

After the survey closes, city staff and City Council will continue developing the strategic plan during study sessions on February 17 and March 9. These discussions will add more detail, including goals, performance metrics, and future projects.

The survey will close on February 11. Thank you for sharing your perspective and helping shape Englewood’s future!

Strategic Plan Outcome Areas

At the annual Council Retreat on Saturday, January 24, Council reviewed the results from the community survey and focus groups. Based on this input, Council identified the following outcome areas, or themes, which will serve as the structure of the new strategic plan. Each theme includes key focus areas listed below to provide additional context. Later in February, Council will finalize projects and performance metrics to guide the work of each area.

Please review the outcome areas below:

Economic Vitality - Supporting local businesses and active commercial areas
- Examples include filling vacant storefronts, reducing barriers to opening a business, revitalizing areas like South Broadway and CityCenter and improving safety and placemaking in business districts.
Infrastructure - Maintaining the systems the city relies on every day
- Examples include strengthening the resiliency of water, wastewater and stormwater systems; balancing system needs, risk and affordability; protecting water and natural resources; improving streets and transportation; maintaining city facilities; and ensuring secure, reliable and resilient technology systems.
Livability - Making Englewood a great place to live
- Examples include expanding housing options and affordability; preserving existing housing and reducing displacement; improving pedestrian safety and access to transportation options; supporting lifelong learning; addressing climate impacts; creating attractive parks and public spaces; and fostering a sense of place through community gathering places and neighborhood placemaking.
Public Service Delivery - How the city serves and responds to the community
- Examples include customer service and response times, accessibility of city staff, community engagement, risk management and neighborhood programming.
Safety - Protecting community well-being and public safety
- Examples include police services and performance, education and transparency around police enforcement and the criminal justice system, improved resources and services for unhoused individuals, inclusion of a comprehensive and constitutionally sound real-time crime center and maintaining strong performance metrics for police delivery.

Please rank these outcome areas in your order of priority:

Infrastructure

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Safety

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Livability

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Economic Vitality

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Public Service Delivery

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Should the concepts of affordability and sense of place remain in the livability outcome, or should they become their own outcomes?

Affordability and sense of place should remain as a part of livability

Affordability should become its own outcome area, but sense of place should remain as part of livability

Sense of place should become its own outcome area, but affordability should remain as part of livability

Both affordability and sense of place should become their own outcome areas

Looking at the list, are there any large areas of focus for the city in future years that are not included?

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