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Waynesboro Comprehensive Plan Open House
Join us at the upcoming Open House!
You’re invited to a community open house on November 19 at 5 p.m. at Waynesboro High School to learn more about and discuss the Comprehensive Plan update. This is an opportunity to give input on various important issues that affect the daily lives of residents, businesses, and visitors to help guide Waynesboro’s future.
For more information, please visit www.waynesborotogether.com.
From the www.waynesborotogether.com website:
Comprehensive Plan
A Comprehensive Plan is a long-range document for growth and development. It defines land use, environmental stewardship, development, and community goals. As jurisdictions change, plans are reviewed and updated to address new needs, establish new goals, and revise actions or language. In Virginia, the Planning Commission reviews comprehensive plans to determine if enough change has occurred in the locality to facilitate a plan update.
Additionally, the City is updating the Transportation Plan and Housing Plan. While these two latter plans will be stand-alone reports, they will also serve as more detailed extensions of the Comprehensive Plan.
Transportation Plan
Transportation Plans provide long term goals and help guide localities through the decision-making process when prioritizing transportation projects. These plans work to identify the needs of the current infrastructure and reduce harm to all citizens. These processes overlap with the comprehensive planning tasks of public engagement, data analysis, visioning, and recommendations.
Housing Plan
Housing Plans recommend housing strategies for jurisdictions. Effective Housing Plans work to improve residents’ quality of life and make housing more affordable. These processes overlap with the comprehensive planning tasks of public engagement, data analysis, visioning, and recommendations.
Plan Process
Creating Waynesboro’s Comprehensive Plan follows a 5-step structure that overlaps with public and stakeholder engagement. The process is as listed below:
Data Gathering and Analysis & Review Past Plans
Wise policies arise from valid data and reliable analysis. Data is the core to all chapters and their subsequent policies, goals, objectives, and recommendations. Analysis of data leads to better understanding the City’s issues and needs.
Identify Community Needs
The planning process solves problems, addresses threats, and takes advantage of opportunities. The plan update will identify and catalog community needs with valid and reliable data analysis.
Visioning
Information from the previous steps helps the community identify its vision, goals, and objectives. These guiding statements will direct the development of specific recommendations and policies. Setting the right vision is imperative and should result from considerable information and deliberation.
Develop and Evaluate Recommendations
Referring to community needs and its overall vision, this plan will produce detailed recommendations and guiding policies to steer the City’s efforts over the coming years. The plan should be specific and tangible to bring structure and clarity to decision-makers’ difficult job of local governance.
Plan Development and Approval
The previous step elements will combine to create the main Comprehensive Plan, Transportation Plan, and Housing Plan.