Vision 2030 is an update to the Vision 2020 Report of Recommendations which was adopted by Routt County, the City of Steamboat Springs and the Towns of Hayden, Oak Creek and Yampa. Vision 2020 served as a guiding document for the entire County and enabled many citizen-led efforts such as:

• First Impressions of Routt County, which supports early childhood education;
• Purchase of Development Rights program, which helps landowners use conservation easements to protect their land from future development;
• Routt County Open Lands Plan, which furthers open space needs addressed in Vision 2020 discussions;
• Yampa Valley Recycles, a County-wide recycling effort.

In addition, the Community Agriculture Alliance, Yampa Valley Partners and Yampa Valley Land Trust all at least in part originated in the Vision 2020 process.

Vision 2030 will update the 1994 Vision 2020 recommendations and guide public policy towards our collective vision, directing decision makers and residents towards retaining those elements that we treasure. These are the core values that define a town or region’s “heart and soul” attributes, those unique features, resources, special places, and characteristics that, if lost, would fundamentally diminish the quality of community and sense of well-being that brought citizens here in the first place.