Comprehensive Planning
Overview
March 15th
Osceola WI
Bob Kazmierski
Community Resource Agent
UWEX-Cooperative Extension
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Comprehensive Plan Overview
– Topics To Cover
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What’s A Comprehensive Plan?
Why Plan Comprehensively?
Why Plan Together?
How Will Planning Help?
What’s “Smart Growth”?
What’s In a Plan?
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PLANNING OVERVIEW –
Planning
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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
Comprehensive Plan?
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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
Comprehensively?
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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
TOGETHER?
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Better Planning.
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Better, More Efficient Implementation
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Better Chance for Funding
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Planning Overview – How Will
Planning Help?
Enabling Legislation - With a Kicker:
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Unless Adopted, Will Limit Ability to
Regulate Land Use Starting in 2010
Eventually, Some Other Jurisdiction May
Adopt and Implement a Plan for You
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PLANNING OVERVIEW – HOW
WILL PLANNING HELP US?
Thorough local decisionmaking
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Planning Overview – How Will
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
WILL PLANNING HELP US?
A pro-active approach to change that:
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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
Growth?
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A National Initiative That Recognizes Connections
Between Development and Community Quality of
Life
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Development Brings Benefits and Costs
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There Is No “One-size-fits-all” Smart Growth Plan
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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
SMART GROWTH?
In Wisconsin, statutes focus on:
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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
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
Plan?
Issues & Opportunities
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Customizes Plan to Local Content
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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
Plan?
Housing - Analysis
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Inventory, Analysis & Recommendations for
Programs
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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
Plan?
Housing – Policies & Programs:
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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
Plan?
Transportation
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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
Plan?
Utilities & Community Facilities
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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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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
Plan?
Agricultural, Natural & Cultural Resources
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Inventory, Analyze & Make
Recommendations Re:
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Farms & Farming
Your Communities Natural Resource Base Wetlands, Soils, Lakes
Cultural and Historical Resources
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PLANNING OVERVIEW – WHAT’S
IN THE PLAN?
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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Inventory, analyze, make recommendations
re:
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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
Plan?
Intergovernmental Cooperation
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Analyze, Explore Potential Conflicts &
Opportunities With:
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Adjacent Municipalities
School Districts
County
Region
State
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Planning Overview – What’s In The
Plan?
Land Use
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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
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Plan?
Implementation
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Remember Plan-action Consistency Is Key
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How Do the Plan Pieces Fit Together?
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What Are the Priority Implementation
Strategies That Will Put “Wheels” on This
Plan?
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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
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