Throughout 2025, the City of Kettering is working with the community to shape its future through the creation of a new Comprehensive Plan—our blueprint for growth, reinvestment, and sustainability over the next 20 years. Your voice plays a critical role in helping us understand community priorities and opportunities.

This online engagement includes four interactive activity tabs, each centered on a key topic:

• Land Use & Development – What's Missing Kettering
• Housing – Home in Kettering
• Jobs – Jobs in Kettering
• Parks & Trails, Transportation, and more – Finding & Fix

Please take a few minutes to complete each activity, then finish with a brief exit questionnaire to share your thoughts on the experience and tell us a bit about yourself.

How This Platform Works:

This Online Engagement Platform is designed to be an interactive, self-paced experience where you can explore key topics, share your ideas, and help guide the City’s Comprehensive Plan.

+ Go at Your Own Pace – Move through the tabs in any order and take your time exploring.

+ Engage & Share – Use the digital tools provided to tell us what you think. Your feedback will help shape Kettering’s long-term vision for housing, transportation, economic development, and more.

+ Talk with the Team – Have a question? Drop it in the comment box on the homepage, and someone from the team will get back to you!

+ Stay Involved – Want to follow along? Keep checking the project website for updates, events, and ways to stay engaged throughout the process.

+ Need more Info? – For additional details and answers to common questions, please visit the FAQ page on the project website

Our Purpose for this Online Engagement:

+ Build momentum – The What's Next Kettering public engagement builds on past conversations from the Strategic Plan, Spark Kettering, and other related plans and studies, continuing the vision for Kettering’s future.

+ Generate – Explore the four online interactive stations, learn about current conditions, emerging trends, and key issues, and share your insights to help guide the plan.

+ Inspire – Leave motivated to stay involved in the Kettering Comprehensive Plan and help share the City’s future!

Your input is essential in creating a plan that reflects the community’s needs and aspirations. Thanks for being part of What’s Next Kettering!

Land Use and Development Key Findings

Housing Key Findings

Economic Key Findings

Welcome to What's Missing Kettering. The next two activities focus on Land Use & Development in Kettering. You'll explore opportunities across the city—places that could be reimagined, revitalized, or redeveloped to better serve the community.

Work your way through both activities and tell us what possibilities you see for Kettering’s future!

Explore Kettering's Focus Areas

In a comprehensive plan, focus areas are specific parts of a city or region, like neighborhoods, corridors, or districts, that are provided with specific analysis and resources within a plan because they have unique needs, opportunities, or pressures for change. In Kettering, the selected focus areas are facing a plethora of challenges and opportunities for revitalization, like significant growth, aging infrastructure or underused land.

By identifying focus areas and allowing the community to comment on the desired outcome for these areas, the Planning Team can develop customized strategies that go beyond the general citywide recommendations. This approach helps ensure that investment, policy, and design decisions are more responsive to local conditions.

The six focus areas are shown on the map below. Click on each circle to learn more about that area’s opportunities and key statistics.

Then, use the comment box to tell us:

+ Which focus area you think has the most potential
+ What kind of opportunity you see there

A Place to Call Home

Look at the images below and identify the housing types you’d like to see in Kettering. Consider what kinds of homes would meet the needs of current and future residents.

Using the number shown on each image, tell us:

+ Why this type?

+ Where does it fit?

+ Who is it for?

Your input will help shape future housing opportunities in the city!

Tell us which numbered home(s) you’d like to see in Kettering. Then share your thoughts, why this type, where does it fit, who is it for (young professionals, families, seniors, or others)

Building Careers in Kettering

As Kettering plans for the future, it’s important to consider the kinds of jobs and industries that will support a strong, resilient economy.

In this activity, you’ll see a range of industry sectors and sizes. Think about what types of jobs and businesses you would like to see grow in Kettering, what's missing today? Think both the sector and the size — whether its a large employers, a mid-size company, or small homegrown startup.

Don’t see what you had in mind? You can also consider these additional sectors:

1. Agriculture
2. Construction
3. Finance & Insurance
4. Education
5. Real Estate
6. Public Services

Use the comment box below to share your priorities for Kettering’s future industry growth. Let us know:

+ Which sectors should Kettering target to provide strong, stable, and meaningful employment for future generations?

+ Where should Kettering make “big bets” to position itself competitively?

+ How can Kettering foster small business growth, innovation, entrepreneurship, and emerging industries?

Kettering is always evolving, and we want your input on where to focus next! This activity will help identify key improvements across a variety of topics. Please look at the five different topics, then drag and drop the three that matter most to you.

Once you’ve ranked your top priorities, Use the comment box below to tell us:

+ Which three priorities you selected

+ Why you chose those three

+ How you think these improvements would benefit Kettering

Thank you for your participation!

Before you leave the site, please take a moment to fill out a brief survey reflecting on your experience and some limited information about your background and demographic information. Your information is anonymous and helps the planning team understand who has engaged in the process. Thank you for sharing your time and ideas!