FROM THE EDITORS

 IN 2012, A GROUP OF COMMUNITY LEADERS urged the city to combine all of the important projects, programs, and initiatives into a single annual document that can be shared around Hamilton. For most of the past decade, that publication was known as the Initiative Update and was released annually by the city to showcase recent and upcoming developments in small business, industry, utilities, and neighborhoods.

In 2019, the Hamilton City Council adopted a new comprehensive plan called Plan Hamilton. This plan is not simply the plan of the city government. Rather, it was the result of a year of public input to determine what the city should grow into over the next 15–20 years.

Plan Hamilton is a living document that is constantly evolving with the input of residents and stakeholders in collaboration with the city. As we know from 17Strong … WE is greater than ME.

This issue, a partnership with The Hamiltonian, aims to tell the story of progress on Plan Hamilton. Once a year, WE as a community, can look at this document and ask ourselves if we are making progress on the plans we have made. Better yet, we can ask ourselves how WE will improve upon it.

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One Pride Publishing, LLP

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Photographer

Bailey Osborne

Graphic Design

Eric Marquard

Writers

Kyle Boomershine, Dan Clemens, Richard O Jones, Kieh Kirby

Reid Maus, Megan E. Smith, Maggie Viox