The City of Casa Grande General Plan 2020 was approved by voters on November 3, 2009. The General Plan 2020, however, was not a traditional approach. General plan documents have conventionally taken a Euclidian, parcel-by-parcel view of determining land uses within a city, and often include upwards of 20 different land use categories. Alternatively, the City of Casa Grande’s General Plan 2020 aimed to offer its citizens, staff, and developers a more flexible approach, and provides this direction by using only six different land use categories. This innovation has helped the city shift the focus from density to quality, while at the same time ushering in Smart Growth principles and regulations by encouraging mixed-uses within the different land use categories. Further innovations in the General Plan 2020 include the creation of a Growth Areas Element that has become a tool for economic development by alerting prospective developers of the anticipated availability of infrastructure and support services. The Plan was further innovative in that it helped to solidify relations with neighboring communities. In preparation for the Plan, the City of Casa Grande signed intergovernmental agreements with each of its surrounding communities, thus setting the planning area boundaries for the City. Each of these innovations required great leaps of faith and creativity, but have produced a document that has greatly benefited the community.