Comprehensive Planning

This guide, created to help Wisconsin municipalities meet state planning requirements, summarizes how local communities can address natural resources in their comprehensive plans. It provides an overview on planning for natural resources and covers water, wildlife, forest, parks/open space/recreation, scenic, and mineral, resources, as well as solid and hazardous waste, brownfields, wastewater facilities, and air quality, listing relevant state and federal requirements and considerations in planning for each topic. The guide provides some sample goal and policy langauge.