Re: SG-W:/ county comprehensive plan

["Jeff Surfus" <jeffsurfus@email.msn.com>]

Vivienne and others,

Will the plan, when finished, be a legally enforceable document, or only a
guideline?

Given the preponderance of lawsuits challenging local governments' abilities
to stop development, I was just wondering if a legally enforceable document
at the county level may have more legal standing than a township level
master plan, which doesn't appear to have much value in court.

If indeed this is a document with teeth, then we should be very active in
getting it done right.  If not, and it is only a guideline, will we only be
spending our time in vain putting together a plan that will only be ignored
and/or challenged?

Just wondering...

Jeff Surfus

----- Original Message -----
From: Vivienne Armentrout <varmentrout000@ameritech.net>
To: smartgrowth-washtenaw <smartgrowth-washtenaw@great-lakes.net>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 7:45 AM
Subject: SG-W:/ county comprehensive plan


> The county planning commission (formally, the Washtenaw County
> Metropolitan Planning Commission) has begun work on a new comprehensive
> plan for Washtenaw County.  This will result not only in a land use plan
> map but in analysis and discussion of many facets of county life,
> including housing and environment.
>
> At present the main discussion has been about the importance of the plan
> as a statement for what we want the county to look like and be like in
> the future.  This is the "mental model" which we hope to construct on
> the basis of all-county discussion.  The plan will also include much
> technical material (inventories, etc.) but we agree that this picture of
> the future will be the most important feature and the one which informs
> the rest (strategies, etc.).
>
> There will be a formal kick-off statement issued by the PC shortly;
> however, last night we voted to devote the first hour of every monthly
> meeting to the plan. WCMPC meetings are the second Thursday of each
> month, 7:00 pm at 110 N 4th in Ann Arbor. (The June meeting is
> off-schedule, on June 13, a Tuesday.) Public comment is at the beginning
> of the meeting, before the comprehensive plan discussion.  This is a
> chance for you to help shape the model.
>
>
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