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Providence, Rhode Island.
Proposed Zoning Heights, Sasaki Vision Providence 2020.

Municipal Master and/or Comprehensive Plans

  • Rouse, David AICP, Todd Michael Chandler, and Jon Arason, AICP. The 21st Century Comprehensive Plan. APA National Planning Conference, 1999.
  • Smith , Herbert H. The Citizens Guide to Planning. Washington, DC: The Planners Press, 1993. Chapter 4, The Master Plan, pp.83-107.
  • Neuman, Michael AICP. Does Planning Need the Plan? APA National Planning Conference, 1999. (Print out and skim, or read.)

Attributes of Recent Comprehensive Plans (You do not need to print these out.) Peruse
Links to examples referenced in Rouse, David AICP, Todd Michael Chandler, and Jon Arason, AICP. The 21st Century Comprehensive Plan. APA National Planning Conference, 1999.

Extra Reading and Resources

Examples

Providence, Rhode Island

Boulder, Colorado

Seattle, Washington

Florida

"Despite these challenges, the comprehensive plan has resurfaced as a potent planning tool in the 1990's. Several factors have contributed to this reemergence. Over the past several decades a number of states adopted statutes requiring local jurisdictions to prepare comprehensive plans. These state planning mandates have been subject to criticism that, like the Section 701 program, they result in formulaic "compliance plans" with little incentive for local creativity. Perhaps the most extreme example, Florida's Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act, prescribes plan contents in detail, leaving little latitude for variation or interpretation. Nevertheless, there is little doubt that state planning mandates have provided considerable momentum for local comprehensive planning. More recent statutes, such as Maryland's Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Act of 1992, allow more flexibility in the content and policy direction of local plans within general guidelines set by the State." In Rouse, David AICP, Todd Michael Chandler, and Jon Arason, AICP. The 21st Century Comprehensive Plan. APA National Planning Conference, 1999. Preview.
Note: Refer to Smith, pp. 90-96, , above (Smith , Herbert H. The Citizens Guide to Planning. Washington, DC: The Planners Press, 1993. Chapter 4, The Master Plan, pp.83-107.) for a description of Flordia's growth management approach and the issue of "concurrency".

  • Gainsville, Flordia
    • Planning for the Past: Preserving Florida's Heritage - 2002 [Download as PDF file.]
    • Statewide Comprehensive Historic Preservation Plan, Florida. Under Chapter 163 of the Florida Statutes, local governments are required to develop comprehensive plans.
    • Gainesville
    • Gainsville responded by developing, through its Comprehensive Planning section (which also reviews any proposed land use and zoning changes) ,several Comprehensive Plan Documents, City of Gainsville, Florida.
    • The Comprehensive Plan is implemented by the Land Development Code.
    • Historic Preservation section of Planning
      • works with the five historic districts
      • the Historic Review Board
      • develops, guidelines and
      • proposed new districts (see below).
    • Pending adoption are Design Guidelines for New Construction and Standards of Rehabilitation for the five historic districts. [Download as PDF file.].
    • There is also a 90-day demolition delay on historic structures outside the historic districts.
    • Generalized Zoning Map.
  • Jacksonville, Florida
    • In 1990, the City of Jacksonville developed a Historic Preservation Element (executive summary) as part of the 2010 Comprehensive Plan. Is the HP element not specific enough? Examine how "objective 1.4" relates relate to the general scope of the comprehensive plan?
    • Historic Preservation Program was developed by the Historic Preservation Commission
    • On November 27, 1990 Jacksonville's Historic Preservation Ordinance was passed.  The preservation ordinance constitutes Chapter 307 of the Jacksonville Ordinance Code. 
    • The Ordinance also formed Chapter 76 of the Jacksonville Ordinance Code, which formed the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission. 

More Extra Reading

  • Comprehensive Plans — articles, Planning Comissioner's Journal. (No not buy.)
    • Chandler, Michael. "Developing the Comprehensive Plan, Part I," Planning Commissioners Journal, No.10, June 1993. [In Basic Planning Tools reprints, page 2.]
    • ————— "Developing the Comprehensive Plan, Part II," Planning Commissioners Journal, No.10, June 1993. [In Basic Planning Tools reprints, page 2.]
    • ————— "Developing the Comprehensive Plan, Part III," Planning Commissioners Journal, No.10, June 1993. [In Basic Planning Tools reprints, pp.3-4.]
  • Morris, Marya. Innovative Tools for Historic Preservation, Chapter 4: Preservation and the Comprehensive Plan. Planning Advisory Service Report #438, American Planning Association, 1992.
  • White, Bradford J. and Richard J. Roddewig. Preparing a Historic Preservation Plan. Chicago: American Planning Association, 1994.
  • Municipal Preservation Plans, Massachusetts Historical Commission, 03/22/01. [Download as PDF file.] See links (under "Attributes...") below to examples of comprehensive plans reference in this paper.
  • Davidson, North Carolina