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Agua Fria Community
Agua Fria Planning Committee Vision StatementOur Vision for Agua Fria is a community where our history has been embraced, where we value our cultural and historical origins while creating a sustainable and thriving future for our citizens. A community where our children have an opportunity to live and prosper. A community that welcomes and encourages children to become full participants of village life in a safe environment and where generations are still on their ancestors land; where young people think of staying. We resolve to protect the Santa Fe River and our open spaces as well as the unique character of our Village by honoring our cultures and the area’s historical, agricultural, livestock and residential traditions. We, as a community, further resolve to work together to preserve, maintain and accomplish our vision of a sustainable, well-planned community where people of all income levels are welcome and where people are able to live and work in harmony with their neighbors. The citizens of Agua Fria Village adopt this vision statement Mission StatementOur mission is to formulate a strategic plan for sustainable development that promotes the rural quality of life in the Traditional Communities in the Pojoaque Valley. The quality of life we want includes: a) maintained rural character of the Valley as described in our Vision 2025; b) harmonious relationship between Pueblo and Non-Pueblo communities; c) secured water sources and good quality drinking water; d) satisfactory level of community facilities & services, particularly the provision of appropriate liquid & solid waste management, law enforcement, safe roads and wellness facilities; e) substantial open space, organized recreational areas and shared gathering places; and f) quality public education that promotes citizenship responsibility of a democratic society4 within our community and prepares our children for the demands of 21st century employment. Mission Objectives1. Empower the Pojoaque Valley Traditional Communities by developing an evolving planning capability, including the capacity to effectively coordinate programs and projects among key stakeholders, to secure funding, and to implement this strategic plan. 2. Promote an economy that supports and revitalizes the agricultural activity in the Valley while developing other resource-conserving economic activities. 3. Identify, map and work towards resolving jurisdictional boundaries in an effort to formulate and implement County land use ordinances. 4. Develop land use ordinances that reflect a concerted and cooperative effort among the County, State, and Pueblo governments in resolving the Valley's growth management issues:
5. Develop a set of Local Sustainable Development Indicators5 that the Planning Review Committee can use to monitor and evaluate the plan's implementation. NOTES:1. Strategic planning determines where a community is going over the next 20 years or more, how it is going to get there, and how it will know if it got there or not. It is distinguished from other types of planning methodology by the structured inclusion of key factors social, economic, cultural, political, technological, and environmental that affect the community. These includes those issues, trends, factors (in strategic planning terms are called opportunities and threats) over which the community has little or no control. Traditional planning might on occasion identify such factors, but rarely are the implications examined. In addition, they are usually considered after plan formulation, and typically reactively through a feedback loop after attempts at plan implementation. 2. Sustainable development refers to a doctrine that economic growth and development must take place, and be maintained over time, within the limits set by ecology in the broadest sense by the interrelations of human beings and their works, the biosphere and the physical and cultural laws that govern it. It provides a framework under which communities can use resources efficiently, create efficient infrastructures, protect and enhance quality of life, and create new businesses to strengthen their economies. It can help us create healthy communities that can sustain our generation, as well as those that follow ours. 3. TheTraditional Communities in the Pojoaque Valley refer to the County designated traditional communities of Cuyamungue, El Rancho, Jacona, Jaconita, Nambe, and Pojoaque. 4. Citizenship responsibility of a democratic society refers to the obligations to contribute to the common good by performing duties to benefit the community (e.g. individual responsibility to become informed of public policies; to participate in community decision-making, to vote in public elections, etc.). As what John D. Rockefeller, Jr., an American Philanthropist (1874-1960), once said, I believe that every right implies a responsibility. 5. Local sustainable development indicators are central to the monitoring and reporting of progress towards vision and sfcTextJustify achievement: a better quality of life for people in the Valley, now and for generations to come. They cover the three pillars of sustainable development, namely social progress, economic growth and environmental protection, including Community Members everyday concerns: health, jobs, crime, air quality, traffic, housing, educational achievement, wildlife and economic prosperity. Links
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