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Comprehensive Planning 101

Friday, January 25th, 2008

South Berwick has been going through a comprehensive planning process for the last few years and on February 25 will hold a public hearing on the draft plan. You can find our current plan (from 1990) and the draft of the next comprehensive plan on the town website.

In preparation for the public hearing, I will be posting summaries of the draft comprehensive plan at the236diner.com over the next few weeks. However, before I can do an informed reading of the plan, I realized that I needed to learn more about what a comprehensive plan is, why towns do them, and what makes a good comprehensive plan. Fortunately the State of Maine provides many internet resources to help understand comprehensive planning so here’s my version of Comprehensive Planning 101.

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