HomeMy WebLinkAboutPIECES OF COMP. PLAN - Comprehensive Plan 2003It shall be the duty of the planning or planning and zoning commission to conduct a
comprehensive planning process designed to prepare, implement, and review and update
a comprehensive plan, hereafter referred to as the plan. The plan shall include all land
within the jurisdiction of the governing board. The plan shall consider previous and
existing conditions, trends, desirable goals and objectives, or desirable future situations
for each planning component. The plan with maps, charts, and reports shall be based on
the following components as they may apply to land use regulations and actions unless
the plan specifies reasons why a particular component is unneeded.
(a) Property Rights - An analysis of provisions which may be
necessary to insure that land use policies, restrictions conditions and fees do not
violate private property rights, adversely impact property values or create
unnecessary technical limitations on the use of property and analysis as prescribed
under the declarations of purpose in chapter 80 title 67 Idaho Code.
(b) Population - A population analysis of past, present, and future trends in population
including such characteristics as total population, age, sex, and income.
(c) School Facilities and Transportation - An analysis of public school capacity and
transportation considerations associated with future development.
(d) Economic Development - An analysis of the economic base of the area including
employment, industries, economies, jobs, and income levels.
(e) Land Use - An analysis of natural land types, existing land covers
and uses, and the intrinsic suitability of lands for uses such as agriculture, forestry,
mineral exploration and extraction, preservation, recreation, housing, commerce,
industry, and public facilities. A map shall be prepared indicating suitable projected land
uses for the jurisdiction.
(f) Natural Resource - An analysis of the uses of rivers and other waters, forests, range,
soils, harbors, fisheries, wildlife, minerals, thermal waters, beaches, watersheds, and
shorelines.
(g) Hazardous Areas - An analysis of known hazards as may result from susceptibility to
surface ruptures from faulting, ground shaking, ground failure, landslides or mudslides;
avalanche hazards resulting from development in the known or probable path of
snowslides and avalanches, and floodplain hazards.
(h) Public Services, Facilities, and Utilities - An analysis showing
general plans for sewage, drainage, power plant sites, utility transmission corridors
water supply, fire stations and fire fighting equipment, health and welfare facilities,
libraries, solid waste disposal sites, schools, public safety facilities and related
services. The plan may also show locations of civic centers and public buildings.
(i) Transportation - An analysis, prepared in coordination with the
local jurisdiction(s) having authority over the public highways and streets showing
the general locations and widths of a system of maior traffic thoroughfares and
other traffic ways, and of streets and the recommended treatment thereof. This
component may also make recommendations on building line setbacks control of
access, street naming and numbering and a proposed system of public or other
transit lines and related facilities including rights-of-way, terminals future
corridors, viaducts and grade separations. The component may also include port
harbor, aviation, and other related transportation facilities
(j) Recreation - An analysis showing a system of recreation areas including parks
parkways, trailways, river bank greenbelts beaches playgrounds and other
recreation areas and programs.
(k) Special Areas or Sites - An analysis of areas sites or structures of historical
archeological, architectural, ecological wildlife or scenic significance
(1) Housing - An analysis of housing conditions and needs; plans for improvement of
housing standards: and plans for the provision of safe sanitary, and adequate
housing, including the provision for low-cost conventional housing the citing of
manufactured housing and mobile homes in subdivisions and parks and on
individual lots which are sufficient to maintain a competitive market for each of
those housing types and to address the needs of the community.
(m) Community Design - An analysis of needs for governing landscaping building
design, tree planting, signs, and suggested patterns and standards for community
design, development, and beautification.
(n) Implementation - An analysis to determine actions, programs budgets, ordinances, or
other methods including scheduling of public expenditures to provide for the timely
execution of the various components of the plan. Nothing herein shall preclude the
consideration of additional planning components or subject matter. (1996)
Do not take this duty lightly; it sets the stage for everything else you do. If
you do not provide a focus for your planning efforts you set the stage to
enable the community's leadership to wonder aimlessly as it confronts issues
one by one in the course of years to come.