OGDEN — Do you like pizza and civic planning?

If you answered yes, or maybe, to both of these, Make Ogden will be hosting a pair of meetings this week — both of which are advertised to include free pizza — to give residents a chance to have a voice in formulating the city’s new general plan.

The first Plan Ogden visioning meeting is set for Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Ogden Union Station.

“This summer Ogden residents brainstormed options for the future of our city,” the Plan Ogden website states. “Together, they imagined possibilities for housing, recreation, downtown, and transportation. Now it’s time to evaluate a range of choices for today and future generations.”

A second meeting, which will be conducted in Spanish, will be held on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the main branch of the Weber County Library.

Similar meetings were held in the summer to help kick-start the public’s involvement in piecing together a new general plan, the first new plan the city has pursued in more than two decades.

“Typically, general plans should be updated every 10 years,” Brandon Rypien, Ogden City senior planner, told the Standard-Examiner in June. “Our last general plan was adopted in 2002. The data needs to be updated and it needs to be updated to reflect current trends. We need to make sure that we’re thinking about how we live today. A lot has changed — the way we live, the way we talk, commute, the way we communicate as a population is totally different than it was back in 2002. We want to make sure that when we look at the future that we plan for our kids, that we plan for a sustainable city and also that we’re thinking about the economy in the future.”

While groundwork was laid for six months leading up to the initial public meeting in June, officials expect it to take around two years to come up with a general plan before it is adopted.

For more information, visit https://www.plan-ogden.com/.