Planning & Development

Comprehensive Planning

• Planning Elements Guidebooks
• Official Mapping Fact Sheet- pdf
• Crafting an Effective Public Participation Plan – pdf file
• Comprehensive Planning Fundamentals UW Extension Publication (.pdf)
• Required Elements of a Local Comprehensive Plan UW Extension Publication (.pdf)
• Key Points about Wisconsin’s Comprehensive Planning and Smart Growth Law UW Extension Publication (.pdf)
• Growing Greener: Conservation by Design – a 16 page PDF file from the Natural Lands Trust web site.
• Town of Grantsburg Comprehensive Plan
• Ashland County Wisconsin Comprehensive Plan (.pdf)

Links

• Land Use Tracker Newsletter – Center for Land Use Education
• Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association
• Planning Commissioner’s Journal: Planners Web
• West Wisconsin Land Trust
• National Lands Trust
• Gathering Waters Land Trust
• Cyburbia – The Urban Planning Portal (miscellaneous planning resources)
• Northwest Regional Planning Commission
• Key Points About Wisconsin’s New Comprehensive Planning and “Smart Growth” Law