1. City of Zumbrota Comprehensive Plan
Bridging the Past and the Future
2001 Strategic Plan Update

2. VISION 2020
People of all ages are proud of Zumbrota and feel supported and nurtured by the community. New people are welcomed and quickly feel valued and safe. Citizen involvement is at the center of a continually improving quality of life. Planning and decision-making groups cooperate and invite input from all people. The community is proactive and responsive to change, yet respectful of the past.
Businesses requiring skilled and knowledgeable workers compete to locate in Zumbrota, provide competitive wages, and become involved in community activities. Various types of attractive and affordable housing are available. The community provides high quality education, health care, and city services for all ages. The downtown is safe, inviting, and alive and has a useful variety of successful businesses. The community offers a wide range of recreational, cultural, and entertainment activities, engaging to both youth and adults. The river, parks, and trails offer high quality and distinctive opportunities to citizens and visitors. The public highways and transportation systems benefit local businesses and residents.
Pride and quality are evident in all that Zumbrota does.
Strategic Planning Task Force - 11/15/00

3. Goal #1 – Projected Population
Set a 20-year population target that reflects historical growth patterns and an understanding of projected growth in the surrounding area.
Population Projection: We project the population of Zumbrota to be at 4,600 in 2020, based on a current population of 2,789, and a projected growth rate of 2.5% per year over twenty years.

4. Goal #2 – Housing Growth
Take actions that will assure an adequate housing supply, mix of housing types, and range of affordable housing to deal with Zumbrota’s projected 20-year population growth.
(Projected population growth over the next 20 years will result in the addition of approximately 805 new housing units.)

5. Goal #3 – Community Health Care
Provide high-quality, accessible health care services for the full range of Zumbrota’s residents.
Goal #4 – Hwy. 52 Expansion
Ensure that the planned expansion of Hwy. 52 has a positive impact on Zumbrota’s residents and businesses.

6. Goal #5 – Central Business District
Retain and grow the viability of the Zumbrota Central Business District (CBD)
Goal #6 – Industrial Development
Aggressively aid in the growth and development of existing businesses and successfully complete at least 50 acres with new industries by 2008.

7. Goal #8 – Parks & Recreation
Goal #7 - Education
Aid and encourage a stable public education system that provides quality educational services for the community.
Goal #8 – Parks & Recreation
Assure that the river, parks, and trails offer high quality and distinctive opportunities to citizens and visitors.

8. Goal #9 - Annexation
Assure that growth and annexation issues are properly addressed in an atmosphere of common understanding and open communication with residents of the city, townships, county, and affected property owners.

9. Goal #10 – Public Infrastructure
Assure that the city has the water capacity and pressure, and sanitary sewer capacity to handle the residential and business growth outlined in the strategic plan.
Goal #11 – Land Usage
Develop the land that surrounds the city limits of Zumbrota that is consistent with planned land use within Zumbrota and other goals of the strategic plan.

10. Goal #12 – Arts, Culture & Entertainment
Actively encourage and support the work of the Zumbrota Area Arts Council
Goal #13 - Transportation
Continue to develop and maintain a good transportation system that meets the needs of all residents of Zumbrota.

11. Task Force Members Rich Bauer, Mayor Jim Bryant Marlene DeBoef
Dave Driscoll
Allan Falk
Chrystine Haferman
Bob Hawley
Tricia Hinckley
Pete Hinrichs
Ron Horsman
Ron Johnson
Pastor Rob Nelson
Brad Nord
Lowell Olson
Parker Quammen
Sidney Ronningen
Roger Rueckert
Chuck Sturm
Paul Tschann
Phil Walch
Jim Wedge
James Wendt
Leah Wichmann
Deb Wilkinson