Comprehensive planning

Comprehensive plan

a planning process that determines short, medium and long range community goals of development

Planning commissions

an official body created by a local gov to serve with the duty and power to prepare and approve plans for a community- takes political out of planning

Planning Goals

broad, quantitative statements declaring a desired achievements

Planning Strategites

operational actions generally for short term implementation

Planning Objectives

specific, quantitative statements designed to measure the achievement of a goal

3 factors that make a plan comprehensive

◦ Geographical coverage(whole justristion) ◦ Subject matter(all related to physical level) ◦ Time horizon(long, 20 years)(comprehensive plan, master plan, general plan are the same thing)

Alternative approaches of planning

◦ Goal driven ◦ Trend analysis ◦ Opportunity driven- opportunity or constraints ◦ Issue driven- too much to fix/results ◦ Vision driven- controlling overall ideas, very broad

5 steps of compressive planning

◦ Research ◦ Goals and objects (and Strategies) ◦ Plan formulation ◦ Plan implementation ◦ Review and revision