Mitchell Vision Plan

Welcome to the Mitchell Vision Plan

The Mitchell Vision Plan is an effort to create a long term community plan for the city of Mitchell, Indiana. Because change happens all the time, a community must decide the specific criteria they will use to judge, manage and even direct that change.  Instead of reacting after the fact to forces that alter their community, residents armed with a strategic vision can better reinforce the changes that they desire, and discourage changes that detract from that vision.  Having a shared vision allows a community to focus its diverse energies and avoid conflicts in the present as well as the future.

By including residents, businesses, non-profits, local officials, and other community members in a process that empowers them as a whole, visioning reinforces the idea that people do have a say in their collective futures, and they also have a responsibility to each other. Visioning is a process that all community members can have a stake in; the vision is their plan to provide their future, not someone else's imposed idea of what it should be.