Community Needs & Goals
The Charlotte Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan includes 10 goals that reflect the values and guiding principles for creating an equitable city. While it is important to advance all 10 goals across Charlotte, some goals are more of a priority for specific CAP areas based on existing levels of:
- Access to housing choices
- Access to job opportunities
- Access to daily goods and services
- Presence of existing environmental impacts
These metrics are assessed using the Charlotte Future 2040 “Equitable Growth Framework” (or “EGF”) – a tool used to understand disparities and, combined with the “Vulnerability to Displacement Overlay” (“VDO”), measure levels of equity/inequity. The four EGF metrics together include 27 geospatial and land use measures, while the VDO includes four demographic measures.
With scores ranging from 1 to 8, the City’s goal is that all geographies have scores above 5 for each of the four EGF metrics. If a CAP area’s EGF scores are below the City’s goal, then future development should address these most pressing needs.
| Vulnerability to Displacement Overlay (VDO) Measures: Poverty Rate, Race, Educational Attainment, Age |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Part of West Outer is within the VDO | |||
| Access to Housing | Access to Jobs | Access to Amenities | Environmental Justice |
| Measures: Housing Unit Diversity, Housing Cost, Housing Size, Subsidized Housing, Tenure, Level of (Re)Investment | Measures: Proximity to Employment, Employment in Commute Shed, Wage Levels, Middle Skill Jobs, Knowledge Based Jobs | Measures: Proximity to Childcare and Early Childhood Education, Parks, Open Space, Trails; Community Facilities, Fresh Food, Health Care & Pharmacies, Financial Services, Internet Service | Measures: Tree Canopy, Impervious Surfaces, Proximity to Heavy Industrial Uses, Proximity to Major Transportation Infrastructure, Floodplain |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
West Outer’s greatest need is to increase access to employment opportunities. Based on this need, as well as needs for increased access to housing choices and daily goods and services, and the geography’s proximity to existing and planned rapid transit, the following Comprehensive Plan Goals are a priority for the geography. Goal 5 (Safe and Equitable Mobility) and Goal 10 (Fiscally Responsible) are not directly tied to EGF metrics and are thus a priority across all geographies of the city.
All Charlotte households will have access to essential amenities, goods, and services within a comfortable and tree-shaded 10-minute walk, bike, or transit trip by 2040.
Charlotte will strive for all neighborhoods to have a diversity of housing options by increasing the presence of middle density housing (e.g. duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhomes, accessory dwelling units, and other small lot housing types) and ensuring land use regulations allow for flexibility in creation of housing within existing neighborhoods.
Charlotte will ensure opportunities for residents of all incomes to access affordable housing through the preservation of naturally occurring affordable and workforce housing and increasing the number of affordable and workforce housing units through new construction.
Charlotte will promote moderate to high intensity, compact, mixed-use urban development along high-performance transit lines and near separated shared-use paths or trails.
Charlotteans will have opportunity for upward economic mobility through access to a diverse mix of jobs and careers that align with education and skill levels of residents and the economic strengths of the region.