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Comprehensive Plan Overview Comprehensive Plan Overview – Topics To Cover– Topics To Cover

1. What’s A Comprehensive Plan?2. Why Plan Comprehensively?3. Why Plan Together?4. How Will Planning Help?5. What’s “Smart Growth”?6. What’s In a Plan?

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PLANNING OVERVIEW – PLANNING OVERVIEW – PlanningPlanning Community Planning, Fiscal Planning,

Strategic Planning, Nutrient Management Planning, Land Use Planning……

“To Have As Intention” Planning Is Not Zoning

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Planning Overview – What’s A Planning Overview – What’s A Comprehensive Plan?Comprehensive Plan? A Specialized Type of Land Use Plan

A Good Comprehensive Plan Integrates Community Visions, Values and Goals With the Analysis of Local Population, Land Use, Resources and Infrastructure to Produce a Set of Targeted Implementation Strategies

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Planning Overview – Why Plan Planning Overview – Why Plan Comprehensively?Comprehensively?

Limited planning scope = limited capacity for action Resource, transportation, open space corridors, and

many issues, cut across more than one community Development/Conservation of one community

resource or facility affects the development or conservation of other resources, facilities. EX: Site new facility for storage & transfer of solid waste & recyclables >> land use, transportation, budget

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Planning Overview – Why Plan Planning Overview – Why Plan TOGETHER?TOGETHER?

Better Planning.

Better, More Efficient Implementation

Better Chance for Funding

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Planning Overview – How Will Planning Overview – How Will Planning Help?Planning Help?

Enabling Legislation - With a Kicker:

1. Unless Adopted, Will Limit Ability to Regulate Land Use Starting in 2010

2. Eventually, Some Other Jurisdiction May Adopt and Implement a Plan for You

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PLANNING OVERVIEW – HOW PLANNING OVERVIEW – HOW WILL PLANNING HELP US?WILL PLANNING HELP US?

Thorough local decision-making

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Planning Overview – How Will Planning Overview – How Will Planning Help Us?Planning Help Us?

Allows Your Community to Take a Pro-active Approach to Change, Rather Than a Reactive One.

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PLANNING OVERVIEW – HOW PLANNING OVERVIEW – HOW WILL PLANNING HELP US?WILL PLANNING HELP US?

A pro-active approach to change that:

Explores diverse community values & views Builds consensus around shared values Understands shared resource base Determines what community wants to keep, change Challenges pre-conceived notions

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Planning Overview – What’s Smart Planning Overview – What’s Smart Growth?Growth?

A National Initiative That Recognizes Connections Between Development and Community Quality of Life

Development Brings Benefits and Costs

There Is No “One-size-fits-all” Smart Growth Plan

Successful Communities Have in Common – a Vision of Where They Want to Go and What They Value

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PLANNING OVERVIEW – WHAT’S PLANNING OVERVIEW – WHAT’S SMART GROWTH?SMART GROWTH?

In Wisconsin, statutes focus on:

Development and implementation of local plans Provision of grants supporting local planning Emphasis on public participation Emphasis on joint planning, intergovernmental

cooperation By 2010, plan & action consistency

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Public Participation

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

Remember – Comp Plan Integrates Community Visions, Values and Goals With Analysis of Population, Land Use, Resources and Infrastructure to Produce a Set of Targeted Implementation Strategies. Each Chapter Outlines Goals, Objectives, Policies and Programs Related to Some Aspect of Your Community. Once Your Plan Is Adopted, the Idea Is to Take Action!

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

Issues & Opportunities Customizes Plan to Local Content

Provides Overview of Shared Visions, Values

Offers Broad, Long-range Framework That Your Implementation Strategies Will Make Happen

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

Housing - Analysis Inventory, Analysis & Recommendations for

Programs

A Great Opportunity to Understand Your Community, Its Diversity

Better Understanding of Housing Supply, Demand

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

Housing – Policies & Programs:

Promote Housing Development for Local Residents

Provide a Range of Housing Choices to Range of Community Needs

Maintain and Rehabilitate Existing Housing Stock

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

Transportation Planners Look at Current Transportation Systems,

Their Condition and Capacity Analyze Traffic Trends & Project Future Traffic Review State & Regional Trans Plans Provides a Useful Framework for Understanding

Future Demand and Capacity Issues

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

Utilities & Community Facilities Inventory, Assess & Make Recommendations for

Location, Use, Condition, Capacity and Improvement of Public Utilities and Facilities

The Comprehensive Plan Advantage: Are There Shared Problems, Needs, Opportunities That Cut Across Municipal Boundaries?

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

UTILITIES & COMMUNITY FACILITIES Sanitary Sewer Services, Storm Water Management, Water Supply, Solid Waste Disposal, On-site Wastewater Treatment, Recycling Facilities, Parks, Telecommunications, Power-generating Plants and Transmission Lines, Cemeteries, Health Care Facilities, Child Care Facilities, Police, Fire and Rescue Facilities, Libraries, Schools & Government Facilities

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

Agricultural, Natural & Cultural Resources Inventory, Analyze & Make

Recommendations Re: Farms & Farming

Your Communities Natural Resource Base - Wetlands, Soils, Lakes

Cultural and Historical Resources

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PLANNING OVERVIEW – WHAT’S PLANNING OVERVIEW – WHAT’S IN THE PLAN?IN THE PLAN?

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Inventory, analyze, make recommendations

re: Area Economy Labor force and employment Business development needs and capacities Brownfields Economic development programs

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

Intergovernmental Cooperation Analyze, Explore Potential Conflicts &

Opportunities With: Adjacent Municipalities School Districts County Region State

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

Land Use What Are Population Trends & Other Development

“Drivers”? What Are Residential, Commercial, Etc. Land Use

Trends? Where Are Future Development Areas Best Located?

Best Not Located? What Utilities and Infrastructure Will Support

Development? What Are the Policies & Criteria That Will Help Local

Officials Make Effective Land Use Decisions?

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Planning Overview – What’s In The Planning Overview – What’s In The Plan?Plan?

Implementation Remember Plan-action Consistency Is Key How Do the Plan Pieces Fit Together? What Are the Priority Implementation

Strategies That Will Put “Wheels” on This Plan? Who’s Going to Do What, Where, When and

How to Move Forward Priority #1? Priority #2?

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Planning Will Not:

Solve all of your communities problems

Cause all of your communities problems

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Planning Will:

Provide your community guidance for decisions founded on community values and consensus