City of Fort Worth Comprehensive Plan
Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. This growth creates significant opportunity—new jobs, expanded amenities, and vibrant neighborhoods—but also brings challenges, including housing affordability, outward sprawl, traffic congestion, infrastructure demands, and the need for sustainable, well-managed development. To address these dynamics, the City is undertaking a Comprehensive Plan to guide growth in alignment with community priorities and long-term resilience.
Building on the Part I visioning process completed in 2024, MIG is leading the Comprehensive Plan through adoption. This phase translates the community’s vision into clear strategies, policies, and implementable actions that will shape Fort Worth’s development over the coming decades.
The Plan is grounded in rigorous technical analysis. An economic strategy identifies place-based opportunities to attract high-wage industries and talent, strengthen mixed-use employment clusters, reduce commute times, and build on existing assets. Strategic development area mapping highlights where targeted public investment can catalyze private development and where districts can evolve into amenity-rich, mixed-use centers. Supporting market analysis evaluates return on investment and tests transformative growth concepts for key employment and mixed-use areas.
A central element of the Plan is the development of Place Types and a future land use framework. Place Types provide a clear, visual system for guiding context-sensitive growth, identifying potential zoning updates, and supporting a balanced mix of housing, jobs, and amenities. MIG is also leading scenario planning to demonstrate how coordinated decisions around land use, infrastructure, and investment can achieve the City’s growth targets and policy goals.
The process is rooted in robust public and stakeholder engagement. MIG is implementing a multifaceted outreach strategy that brings together residents, businesses, community organizations, and City departments. Engagement is designed to be inclusive and accessible, using workshops, pop-ups, interactive online tools, video content, and social media to broaden participation.
Together, this effort will deliver a clear, long-term roadmap for Fort Worth’s future—supporting informed decisions across land use, housing, transportation, infrastructure, and parks, and assuring that growth strengthens neighborhoods, expands opportunity, and enhances quality of life citywide.