This Plan uses the community’s vision to set directions for residents, stakeholders, officials and Town staff to use in making decisions over the next decade.

How Your Voice, Our Future was created
The Your Voice, Our Future General Plan was created by the community over three phases:

Phase 1: Let’s talk! (Sep 2013 – May 2014)
Oro Valley residents and stakeholders established priorities through open conversations. Many events and outreach efforts provided the opportunity to discuss, debate and listen to one another to gain common understanding. The results were formed into a big-picture Vision statement about Oro Valley’s future, which is further defined through twelve Guiding Principles. The community’s Vision and Guiding Principles were endorsed by the Town Council on May 7, 2014 and set the stage to build a long-range plan of action.

Phase 2 – Let’s think! (Jun 2014 – Nov 2015)
Residents and stakeholders came together to create a Plan with specific goals and polices for the future. The aim was to understand the community’s concerns and aspirations; clarify goals and policies; and address needs, preferences and trends. The product was the Your Voice, Our Future General Plan. At the end of Phase 2 the Plan was first presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission then later to the Town Council, which tentatively adopted the Plan in November 2015.

Phase 3 – Do it! Make it so! (Dec 2015 – Nov 2016)
The Your Voice, Our Future General Plan was presented to the community to show how the document reflects the community's direction and to spark additional discussion. The Plan was finalized and formally adopted by Town Council on September 21, 2016. Oro Valley residents voted to ratify the Your Voice, Our Future General Plan on November 8, 2016.

How Your Voice, Our Future is used by the Town
The Your Voice, Our Future General Plan will be implemented over the next 10 years through the action items listed in Chapter 6: Getting to Work. Priorities for each year will be determined in a Strategic Plan. Your Voice action items are then implemented through the Planning Work Plan and other department work plans. By state law, yearly project reports will be required, outlining the progress on action items.

How to stay involved
Many of the Plan’s 163 action items include public feedback, so stay connected and join our mailing list by emailing YourVoiceOV@orovalleyaz.gov.