The Town of Gallatin recently completed its 2023 Comprehensive Plan. The following Vision Statement and Goals for Implementation, taken from the Plan, are in support of the Vision and Principles for a Climate Resilient Gallatin.
2023 Comprehensive Plan Vision Statement:
“From Signal Rock to the Roeliff Jansen Kill and Lake Taghkanic State Park, Gallatin is distinguished as a community with unique natural beauty and rural character. Its historical settlement patterns of hamlets, farms, and pristine woodlands are major and important features of our landscape. The Gallatin community is deeply invested in maintaining its open spaces, active agriculture, scenic views, habitats for wildlife, and protecting its water resources. The town has been designated a Clean Energy Community and strives to be a model for sustainability, regenerative agriculture, and climate resilience policy, while cherishing and preserving our historic character and natural features.
Gallatin is a welcoming town made up of people of all ages and income levels and recognizes the value of a diverse population as a benefit to our growth, future, and community. While quality small-town public services and recreational opportunities exist within a framework of fiscal responsibility, Gallatin encourages the development of affordable housing and is accommodating to low impact development consistent with our rural character and environment. In addition, the town looks forward to meeting the technological challenges in support of our growing population of home-based workers and businesses.
Our Town Government is open and diligent in its efforts to be responsive to the needs of all its residents and encourages the town’s distinctive identity of volunteerism and community spirit as it endeavors to live up to its motto “Gallatin – a great little town.”
2023 Comprehensive Plan Goals for Implementation:
Goal 1: To preserve Gallatin’s rural, peaceful and quiet character and scenic beauty and maintain its natural environment and wildlife habitats by fostering community stewardship of the land and ensuring low density, climate smart, and low impact future development.
Goal 2: To ensure that farming remains an integral part of Gallatin by protecting and supporting existing farms while also encouraging new forms of sustainable and regenerative farming.
Goal 3: To ensure that Gallatin remains a community that is open to diversity and accessible to all ages and income levels by supporting the development of affordable housing and relevant social services.
Goal 4: To foster Gallatin’s community pride and generous neighborly spirit by developing more substantial modes of community connection, both by investing in digital technology and outreach as well as by supporting local events and places for gathering and sharing information.
Goal 5: To support the development in Gallatin of small ag-related and low impact businesses that serve local and county residents while also embracing the diverse working types/styles that are not traditional such as remote work and/or e-commerce occupations within homes, as well as the flexible live/workspaces needed by Gallatin’s artists, craftspeople, and domestic vendors.
Goal 6: To ensure that Gallatin continues to develop the quality of its public services as well as its responsive and inclusive governance of all its stakeholders.
Goal 7: To ensure that the historic and locally significant resources of Gallatin are preserved in the spirit of embracing change while maintaining the community’s values.
Goal 8: To further develop ample recreation opportunities for Gallatin’s residents through local and state (Lake Taghkanic State Park) initiatives, public-private partnerships, The Columbia Land Conservancy, and the shared value of agreements with adjacent towns.