Your Comprehensive Plan is Done - Now What?

Program to be offered in January or February, 2009

The Comprehensive Plan is both the articulation of the community’s long-term vision and the foundation or policies for achieving this vision. This workshop will provide an understanding of how the Plan policies are not implemented exclusively through land use and development regulation but become manifest in the com-munity through a portfolio of tools that affect how public and private investment takes place. Presenters will demonstrate methods for connecting Comp Plan goals and policies to:

• The legal framework for implementation
  
• Other plans and policy documents such as natural resource plans, economic development plans, urban design plans, and stormwater plans
  
• Development regulations such as zoning, subdivisions, environmental ordinances and aesthetic ordinances
  
• Official maps
  
• Local government programs including housing, rehabilitation and renewal programs,
  
• Capital Improvement Plans and related infrastructural plans
  
• Intergovernmental efforts (orderly annexation agreements, joint powers agreements, watershed organizations/districts, and plans/programs of agencies with jurisdiction such as the county, park districts, transit organizations)
  
• Ongoing local government operations
  
• Establishing a timetable, annual work program and budget for implementation.
  

Note: Although this program will be applicable to communities throughout Minnesota, it is our intention to schedule it after comprehensive plans have been submitted to the Metropolitan Council.

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