Rochester Vision 2050

Over the years, Rochester has had many dedicated community leaders whose efforts and accomplishments have helped our City to grow.  All these efforts (and more) have helped create a more unified, prosperous, and healthy Rochester for future generations. Given the recent announcement by Mayo Clinic to invest $5B establishing Rochester as a world destination for transformational health care far into the future, now is the perfect time to reach out to our community to better understand their hopes and dreams for how our community evolves and responds to this growth, and to learn from them what they believe the City needs to continue to thrive as a compassionate community where people want to live, work and play.

Rochester Vision 2050 (RV2050) seeks to help the community look into the future – close enough to remain aspirational and bold, yet not so far as to seem beyond reach or imagination. It is the time when today’s children will take the reins for the future.  Some of the critical elements identified by the Steering Committee are those necessary for any successful society: Quality Education; Economic Viability (poverty reduction of citizens, funding of City); Safety & Security (police, fire); Healthcare (assuring equitable access); Infrastructure (transportation, power, utilities, public spaces); Housing; and Sustainability.  The goal is to achieve all of these in ways that accrue benefit, not deficit, to the common good. The City is certainly making investments in some of these areas already, but are those investments addressing the concerns and desires of our residents and those of our future? We should ask!