Comprehensive and Sectoral Planning Flashcards
Time Horizon
The length of time a plan describes with its goals and objectives and is one of the plan’s defining elements.
Comprehensive plan
A community’s governing land-use document identifying what its built environment - or physical layout - is expected to look like in the future.
3 criteria for a comprehensive plan
1) Geography: the comprehensive plan includes all land within the authority of the government developing the plan
2) Time horizon: comprehensive plans are considered long-range plans, with a time horizon of at least 20 years
3) Subject matter: a comprehensive plan should include everything related to the physical or built environment in a community
Community plan
Most cities have multiple communities. These communities can go through their own comprehensive planning effort, leading to a plan that identifies what the streets, parks, and buildings could look like decades into the future.
Neighborhood plans
A neighborhood plan is a comprehensive plan for a specific neighborhood within a city. It also includes multiple elements, such as transportation, land use, parks, etc. A neighborhood plan provides more details for a specific area than a city’s comprehensive plan.
Subarea plan
A subarea plan covers only a small geographic area within a community, neighborhoods, or city.
Corridor plan
A corridor plan examines a specific corridor, like a road, and envisions what it could look like in the future, often from a transportation and land use perspective.
Growth management
Describes a set of strategies that support the implementation of a land use plan. The land use plan identifies the types of land uses necessary to support the community’s future growth.
4 growth management strategy categories
Rate of growth, adequate public facilities, phased growth program, urban growth or service boundaries
Rate of growth
Limits the growth of all new development to a certain percentage each year
Adequate public facilities
Require the presence of roads, sewers, potable water, drainage, and schools prior to the completion of a new development.
Phased growth program
The identification of specific locations for future growth, determined by the availability of existing public services.
Urban growth or service boundaries
Borders around a geographic area designating where growth or public services are permitted.
Federal
Each branch of the federal government (executive, legislative, and judicial) can inform planning decisions
State
Each state has an elected head of government, legislative branch, and judicial system. These often have slight variations in their responsibilities, depending on the state.
