Innovate Arlington, the city’s in-progress 20-year plan , is taking shape with five goals for the type of community residents want to see.

John Chapman, Arlington’s long range planning manager, calls them the five pillars of the city’s comprehensive plan , a big-picture overview of the city’s goals with recommendations on how to make them a reality.

Chapman said the pillars were created using the input from community members who attended planning events and helped describe the ideal Arlington of the future.

Planners also used a board game, Grow a Better Arlington , to give feedback on what they would like their community to look like – specifically what types of broad uses they’d like to see for different areas of the city.

“That helped us understand where residents and community

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