Livable Meck
Livable Meck is dedicated to bringing people together to enhance the quality of life across our community.
About Us
By 2030, Mecklenburg County’s population is predicted to increase by more than 1 million residents, doubling the number of people who call the county their home.
Livable Meck is an engagement infrastructure, bringing organizations together to enhance the quality of life across our community. Livable Meck’s purpose is to coordinate, support and enact positive change by:
Engaging residents and stakeholders in a process to guide community growthFacilitating collaboration among the community's private, nonprofit and government organizationsMeasuring the livability of Mecklenburg County's communitiesCommunicating stories and progress to inspire.
In 2021, Livable Meck adopted new ways to be a community convener and demonstrate the philosophy of “Better…Together.” Livable Meck embraced creative methods for collaboration and serving partners. Our Partners demonstrated that powerful results come from fidelity to the guiding principles.
These principles are statements of what our community values, aspires to be and guides our decisions.
Guiding Principles
Environmental Protection. Nutrition. Wellness.
Aging-in-Place. Childcare. Healthcare. Housing. Jobs.
Economic Resilience. Emergency Preparedness. Infrastructure. Public Safety.
Public Transportation. Roads/Pathways. Information Technology.
Skilled Workforce. Arts and Culture.
Creativity. Technology. Entrepreneurship.
Entertainment. Destinations. Festivals and Events. Sports and Leisure.
Hospitality. Diversity. Social Capital.
Our Mission
Livable Meck’s mission is to ensure that our community's strengths, rather than its weaknesses, will dominate the story of this remarkable growth.
Livable Meck is bringing together residents, local governments, non-profits and businesses in Mecklenburg County to develop a unified vision that gives voice to our commonly-held aspirations.
Together, these public and private stakeholders have worked to develop a unified plan that presents a community-driven, stakeholder-vetted and local-government-endorsed blueprint designed to support the livability of Mecklenburg County now and in the future.
Mecklenburg County is changing—and we’re ready for it.
Between 2013 and 2014, residents from across Mecklenburg County came together to articulate their commonly-held aspirations. Now, in Phase Two of the Mecklenburg Livable Communities Plan, more than 130 private, non-profit, and government community partners are coming together to make the community’s vision for a livable Mecklenburg a reality.
Quality of Life in Mecklenburg County
Find statistics relating to education, economy, housing, and environment that determine the quality of life in Charlotte/Mecklenburg County.
History
In 2012, the City of Charlotte, Foundation For The Carolinas and Mecklenburg County collaborated to consider growth projections and quality of life concerns. This effort was called the Mecklenburg Livable Communities Plan. At that time, one million more residents were anticipated in the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) by 2050. In just a few years, that expectation has accelerated, and we now anticipate one million more residents in the next ten years. In 2015, in anticipation of the accelerated growth, a community engagement exercise was conducted, call 'Voice of the Community'.
The information collected during "Voice of the Community" was synthesized into the new community- wide plan. The plan is organized by eight guiding principles and 39 strategies. Associated with each guiding principle is a set of strategies recommended to achieve this principle. This plan sets the road map for protecting and enriching our quality of life for the next five years. This plan was rename LIVABLE MECK.
The goal of Livable Meck is to leverage resources and knit together talents to meet the challenging demands of this growth and protect the quality of life for all Mecklenburg County residents. The Livable Meck guiding principles, and their associated strategies, serve as a collective road map to ensure our community's strengths, dominate the story of our remarkable growth and sustain us in the future.
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