Table of Contents

Comprehensive Planning

This fact sheet on comprehensive plans and planning is intended to raise awareness and prepare a community for planning. It reviews the history of comprehensive planning, discusses what planning is and what it is not, and describes the benefits that planning brings to a community, as well as the negative impacts communities may experience when they do not plan effectively.

Introducing Planning Concepts to Nonplanners

This fact sheet provides a broad overview of local planning, with a special emphasis on the development of a local comprehensive plan. While aimed at citizens in Wisconsin, most of the content is broadly applicable.