We need your help!

The Jonesboro Comprehensive Plan depends on community input to ensure the plan reflects local priorities, values, and day-to-day experiences. Your perspective will help shape how Jonesboro grows, where reinvestment should be focused, and what improvements matter most—from neighborhood stability and housing choices to safer corridors, trails, and community amenities.

Check this page after the public meeting to take the first survey and use a variety of interactive tools to share your ideas, identify opportunities and concerns, and weigh in on future strategies.

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Visit News & Updates for information on upcoming public meetings and engagement opportunities. These events will include project updates, draft materials, and additional ways to provide input as the plan develops.

Information and Feedback

View base information presented at the February 12 meeting and public feedback below.

Existing Conditions

Public Feedback

What are your concerns for the future?

• Not keeping pace with other cities in state our size
• To complete projects that have already started, like the range
• Having enough revenue
• That we will become just another city full of national brands
• Stagnation. Not thinking big enough!
• Lack of infrastructure improvements
• Increased walkability [?]
• Their plan for S3A [?] sustainability globally
• Controlled growth
• Growth without planning
• Poor infrastructure
• Total absence of long term planning to protect future arterial ROW network
• Youth moving out of [the city] after
• Education, k-12 and higher ed freedom. Diversity support
• Safety, increase of crime
• Bigger roads, sidewalks urbanization
• Homeless help, educational resources, diversity development
• Trails and walkable areas throughout the city
• Teachers will continue to lack support from admin
• Logistics breakdowns for a growing city
• Too many empty parking lots! Churches controlling local politics
• More activities for families and young adults
• Development of farmland
• Too much litter
• Hope services keep pace with rapid growth
• Activities for people to do
• Too many silos (need everyone working together)
• Infrastructure is not built to be attractive
• Not attracting and keeping young talent and lack of lifestyles or options
• Roads, potholes, streetlights, security
• Health and environmental concerns
• Pesticides, farms
• Lack of biodiversity and care plan for ecological systems, loss of green, concrete over everything
• Use complete streets (do [them] better)
• Traffic, schools
• Accessibility to events that are not downtown

What would keep you living in Jonesboro?

• Nice neighborhoods
• Good policing JPD
• Walkable vibrant downtown
• Diversity, more theatre + cultural events
• More trees, parks, attractions
• Family, increased opportunity for young families
• Growing community
• Yes, for the global audience it could have
• Increased regional focus
• Less fragmentation. Act like the city we want to be!
• Better elementary education
• Thriving schools and churches
• A great business friendly environment
• The good restaurants we have plus a few more. The good people here
• Churches, law and order, affordability
• Great community!
• Welcoming place, beautification, sidewalks!
• Healthy parks, better housing costs, more things to do
• Consistent open entertainment and use of downtown
• More activities for young adults, kids and families
• Better rent and housing costs
• A wife
• Better pedestrian infrastructure
• More local music and art festivals
• More community
• Better infrastructure
• More community control
• House prices and community activities
• More beautification, more business growth, more people
• More outdoor entertainment than bars
• More parks
• More parks, more walkability
• Things children can do
• Safe community
• More activities for kids, children’s museum
• Safety, safe foot traffic, entertainment
• Increase home owners in Jonesboro
• More events with a broad range of music genres
• More activities and events
• My family and kids wanting to stay here
• Safety
• Great education and recreation for my kids
• Continue growing community involvement

What do you love about Jonesboro?

• Security
• Small town
• It is a nice size and it is near large metro area
• Good people, strong medical community, good social capitol
• Strong schools, strong churches, FOA, our library
• The people and hospitality
• Growth and new people joining our community
• FOA, library, schools, hospitals
• Jonesboro is positioned for global success
• The planning department – they are so helpful
• Small town, good people, churches
• Friends and family are here
• Quiet
• Church support for the arts
• Good education
• The people
• Growing community
• Local music, the breweries, downtown community
• Easy to get around all the amenities I need
• Museums and festivals
• I love that Jonesboro is a university town
• Friendly people, good paying careers
• Community, parks, movie theaters
• The local businesses
• People. Especially those who make a difference with zero incentive
• The people, great parks for everyone

What are your hopes for the future?

• More activities for adults and children
• More arts
• Beter arts scene, ASU and FOA work together
• Great streets, more activities for youth,
• Inclusion
• Senior center with pool, more bike trails
• Inclusion, diversity and more things to do
• Ice rink
• Inclusion! More help for our unhoused
• Join strong towns (think differently)
• Self-sustainable economy, achievable in 15 years
• Gold driving range, improvements to streets, more local owned stores
• Red wolf improvement, too much congestion for a main road for us
• Road maintenance services keep up with growth
• More diversity, acceptance of LGBTQ community and pride
• I would like more support for the public library. We need it. Education is everything.
• More for the youth
• Youth activities
• Cleaner, less litter, more civic pride
• Ice rink
• Mixed use buildings
• More diversity
• Thriving library, thriving towns have a thriving library
• More citywide cultural celebrations
• More support for our public library
• More parks
• Dog park in the hilltop area
• More attractions outdoor free or not
• Frequent bus service to Memphis
• Park in southwest Jonesboro
• Better access to housing, ecologically health green spaces, more cultural centers
• Downtown mall, open air shopping
• More roundabouts
• A plan that values green space and saves trees
• More ways to connect with community – diversity
• Sensory friendly amenities
• Continued business growth
• Safety, increased home values
• A safe place to raise a family and a nice city to do it in

Comment Card Responses

The traffic issues should have been taken into consideration before the project began. Poor planning!!!

Local traffic will use the alternative roads which will create more issues on Brown’s lane, Windover, etc.

Absolutely wonderful staff. Awesome presentation of interative stations. Warm, friendly, not at all what I expected. I felt right at home sharing both positive and negative concerns and successes with others. Thank you!!

I feel Jonesboro is growing and needs more information out to the community about growth so we can have more participation and less keyboard warriors. Better relationship with city and county so transportation and connection for residents are more fluid.

Better communication between city and county

Thank you for this time to share. Please consider a driving range for golf @ Craighead or Joe Mack

Last I checked, our public library has been forced to make staff cuts and almost exclusively accepts volunteer workers. Because of this, the library has become more focused on its goals as a homeless shelter in the past 3 years rather than a place of education and enrichment. There is not enough time in the day to truly make a difference with the squandered leftover of funds that the city has allowed them. Seeing what the library has become in my community is heartbreaking.

Would like the Red Wolf Breeding Center

Need homeless shelter and more affordable housing

The open house was very informative and the participants were very knowledgeable and helpful.

I think that if the city has more activities for our youth to be part of it would help keep them off the streets and in trouble

… need of infrastructure improvements in regards to traffic congestion and bike trails. Definitely need a senior center with a year round pool for senior aquatic classes

We need more for the youth city of Jonesboro Parks need to pay more