Comprehensive Planning

The city works to ensure orderly growth and to maintain the character and stability of present and future land use and development through comprehensive planning. The comprehensive plan identifies a community's resources and the long range community needs and goals. It provides a process for developing community consensus and for local governments to consider the human, environmental, social, and economic impacts of future commercial and residential land use.  

Imagine GNV: The Comprehensive Plan 2035

The City of Gainesville is in the process of evaluating and updating its Comprehensive Plan.

ImagineGNV, the City's Comprehensive Plan update that began in 2020, adds new goals, objectives, and policies that reflect current efforts that aim to make Gainesville a place where everyone can thrive. In November 2025, Planning staff shared the latest draft of ImagineGNV and the associated ImagineGNV Timeline to the City Commission, which can be viewed below.

ImagineGNV Timeline(PDF, 2MB)

We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our neighbors and community organizations that have engaged with our department on ImagineGNV through the last several months of increased outreach and engagement. Each piece of feedback has been taken in and is being evaluated by staff as we work through the next steps of the drafting process, please see the updated timeline above. Feedback has been received during public meetings, community meetings, in person, and through Konveio. Even though the interactive Konveio tools have been taken down at this time in order to start working through all of the feedback, copies of the drafts versions of the ImagineGNV document and Data and Analysis document are provided below, these are the versions most recently presented to the City Commisson in January of 2026. We encourage questions, concerns, inquiries, and feedback to be sent our way. We can be reached at 352-334-5023 or planning@gainesvillefl.gov, or at the Thomas Center in Building B at 306 NE 6th Ave, and we can connect you with a member of our Planning team.

ImagineGNV Draft(PDF, 20MB)

Data and Analysis Draft(PDF, 16MB)

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