Natick 2030+ Master Plan

The Natick 2030+ Master Plan addresses what we want Natick to be in twenty years for ourselves and future generations.

Town Meeting appropriated funds in 2017 to permit the Natick Planning Board to embark on the Natick 2030+ Comprehensive Master Plan process, a two year effort that was just completed in 2019. The resulting report, outlined below, is the culmination of thousands of hours of work by volunteers, a team of consultants, Town staff, boards and committees, and the Planning Board to create a 20+ year vision for the future of Natick.

In brief - Natick 2030+ is both a public process and the resulting report that define a community-wide vision for the future development of Natick and guide the daily planning and policy efforts of the town.

The Process and Plan were designed to answer three questions:

Where are we now?
Where do we want to be?
How do we get there?

The Plan's content is contained in all the following chapters:

Click here for a PDF of the complete Final Master Plan (without appendices). The file is very large and may take a long time to download.

A recurring theme throughout this project was the importance of the character of the Town to everyone’s satisfaction or happiness with living and working in Natick. From the outset, “The People” or “The Community” was a common response to “What do you like most about Natick?”

A community’s character comes from many things – its history, in terms of the people, how it came to be, and how it developed over time; its residents and how they interact with each other and how they contribute time and energy to the Town; the built and natural environments and what is preserved and what is allowed to change; and how the Town chooses to spend its financial resources to serve residents and businesses.