Hillsboro is updating its award-winning community vision, Hillsboro 2020. The original plan was developed over a three-year period in the late 1990s as an opportunity for community members to help shape the future of the city at a time of rapid growth. Since being adopted by Hillsboro City Council in 2000, the Vision Action Plan has been updated twice, once in 2005 and again in 2010. In both cases, the updates brought about new ways to advance goals in six core focus areas: strengthening and sustaining community; enhancing neighborhoods and districts; preserving the environment; creating economic opportunity; expanding educational and cultural horizons; and promoting health and safety.

As the third five-year mark (2015) of Vision implementation approaches, the Hillsboro City Council has asked the citizen-led Vision Implementation Committee (VIC) to reengage the broader community in an update of the of the community vision itself and the accompanying focus areas. This decision is based on several important factors:

• More than 90% of the Hillsboro 2020 Vision and Action Plan is fully implemented or underway.
• The City is scheduled to update its Comprehensive Plan in the next few years, and renewing the community vision will help ensure updates incorporate contemporary community values.
• Hillsboro has grown and changed significantly since the original plan was developed. The community has reached an opportune time to plan for the next twenty years with input from the people who call Hillsboro home today.

The Community Profile is a first step in the three-year Vision update process. Hillsboro is now in the second phase of updating the twenty-year vision and community plan by collecting ideas. For more information, read the project overview (PDF).