Welcome!

The City of Excelsior Springs has partnered with Olsson, a group of community planners and landscape architects, to update the Excelsior Springs Comprehensive Plan, which was last updated in 2009.

The Comprehensive Plan will serve as the primary tool to guide informed decision making for future growth and development, infrastructure, housing, transportation, economic, and cultural needs in a rapidly growing community.

Our team will do this by:

  • Understanding Excelsior Springs’ current state and its existing conditions.
  • Identifying and defining Excelsior Springs’ assets and challenges.
  • Gathering input from the people that know and love Excelsior Springs – that’s YOU!
  • Building consensus around the vision for Excelsior Springs’ future.
  • Determining future land uses, economic development strategies, and transportation improvements to implement in the short-term and long-term.
  • Prioritizing strategies, actions, and resources to achieve the Plan's vision.

At its core, a comprehensive plan is a vision for the future of a community. Comprehensive plans are created by and for the community to record shared goals and desires for themselves and their fellow community members.

A comprehensive plan examines what a community is, and where it came from. It crafts a coordinated road map for the next 10 to 15 years and can be revisited to ensure its relevance.

Comprehensive plans are not zoning; they are policy documents that focus on topics like land use, transportation, parks and recreation, economic development, and more.

The planning process will take approximately 15 months and consist of five primary phases: from Discover, where a baseline understanding of Excelsior Springs is developed, to Engage where the community shares their voice, to Plan and Refine when the actual road map for the future of topics like development, connectivity, and housing are recorded and to Implement when the new comprehensive plan is put to work.

How to navigate the site:

This multimedia site is designed to inform the community about the Comprehensive Planning effort and process. To navigate to a new topic, click the tabs at the top of the screen. Visit this site for periodic updates on the project and to learn more about engagement opportunities!

Your next opportunity to help plan the future of Excelsior Springs is right around the corner!​


Join us on Wednesday, April 16 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM for the Public Open House.

Hosted at First United Methodist Chruch, 1650 Rainbow Blvd.

At the meeting you will be able to meet with members of the Planning Team and City staff to provide your thoughts on how your community should grow and develop over the next 15 years.

Meeting format: Come and Go at your leisure - no formal presentation.