comprehensive plans - then and now
DESCRIPTION
We need a plan from which to deviate - how did comprehensive plans get started in the US? How is the comprehensive plan going in Bridgton? What are the requirements? I list out my favorite plans that I think made their mark on how we do comprehensive plans today and I talk about Bridgton's Comprehensive Plan. The fun slides at the end are backdrops to talk about what issues Bridgton Comprehensive Plan committee are facing in finalizing their policy recommendations.TRANSCRIPT
Anne Krieg, AICPBridgton Director of
Planning, Economic & Community Development
Comprehensive PlanningWe need a plan from which to deviate
Golden Gate Park
• Olmsted was there first• Daniel Burnham weighed in• William Hammond Hall surveyor completed
Charles Burnham Chicago Plan
The Plan focused on six major physical elements:1. improving the lakefront2. developing a highway system3. improving the freight and passenger railway
systems4. acquisition of an outer park system5. arranging systematic streets; and6. creation of a civic center of cultural institutions
and government.
Regional Plan of NY
You may draw all the lines you please between counties and states, a city is a growth responding to forces not at all political (Elihu Root, Committee member)
Cincinnati Plan
No plan on paper is fully effective until it becomes a Citizens’ Plan.
Tennessee Valley
AuthorityIt is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers
Stanford Industrial
Park
…a serious young engineer had to go back east to put spit and polish on his education. (Frederick Terman)
Reston Virginia
Oregon Statewide Land Use Law
sagebrush subdivisions, coastal condomania, and the ravenous rampages of suburbia (Governor Tom McCall)
Comprehensive Planning in Maine
• 1987• State agency review• State goals• Regional review
Requirements• Inventory & Analysis• Policy Development
Implementation StrategyRegional Coordination
Inventory
• Economic & demographics• Water resources• Critical natural resources• Forestry & agriculture
• Recreation & parks• Transportation • Housing
• Historical resources• Land use• Capital facilities & town services
Policy Development
• Growth areas• Discourage incompatible development• Transitional areas• Capital Investment Plan• Protection of water bodies, natural resources and forestry & agriculture• Affordable housing• Outdoor recreation
Bridgton’s Plan• Fall 2014 schedule• Public Process• History of Committee