A comprehensive plan is a citizen-driven, long-range plan (around 20 years) to help city planning staff, policymakers, and other local government officials identify goals and objectives for the future development of the community as well as provide a framework for how to implement the plan. The plan works to prioritize the needs and values of the community by looking at infrastructure and how different activities occurs throughout the city, including the land use, transportation network, utility infrastructure, quality of life, environmental features, and existing policies that affect businesses and residences such as zoning laws.

The city is making a comprehensive plan for three main reasons:

1. To provide a guide for future development in the City based on what the community desires,
2. To have a prioritized list of and rationale for policies, projects, and programs that the City and elected officials to pursue,
3. To allow the city to access local, state, and national grants/funding for economic development, environmental restoration, and more since a comprehensive plan is often one of the requirements in an application.

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Rundell Ernstberger Associates are the lead consultants. Based in Indianapolis, REA has over 40 years of experience with a diverse portfolio of projects ranging from land use plans, regional economic plans to zoning to public space, park, and streetscape designs. Learn more about REA at their official website here: https://www.reasite.com/.

CWC Latitudes is an economic and implementation-based firm out of Columbus, Indiana.

Staff from both firms have worked with Greenfield on past projects including the previous Comprehensive Plan, Downtown Plan, Stellar Plan and application, and Depot Park.

Goals: a breakdown of the vision statement into broad, thematic focus areas. Naturally, they are comprehensive in scope, accomplished over longer timeframes, and significant to achieving the community's vision.

Objectives: how the community wants to achieve the goals, which are more actionable and accomplished in somewhat shorter timeframes. This includes identifying priority objectives, responsible parties (e.g. City departments, public agencies, organizations, etc.), and possible partnerships.

Action Steps: the most specific and actionable (i.e. "boots on the ground") element of the plan. To ensure the plan remains flexible over the 20 years, they are written as recommendations rather than mandates. In other words, they are possible avenues for the identified parties to pursue the plan's objectives.

Placetypes is an approach to land use planning that defines future development patterns by their desired characteristics rather than simply the desired land use. This can include building design, site layout, architecture, land use, and scale. This approach to land use planning utilizes photos and/or conceptual renderings to convey the desired development characteristics within each placetype. In comparison to traditional land use planning (which only define land use), there is a greater emphasis on the quality of development rather than quantity. Here is an article that further explains placetypes:

https://www.civicbrand.com/insights/articles/the-r...