Planning & Development
Comprehensive Planning
- Plannning Elements Guidebooks
- Official Mapping Fact Sheet- pdf
- Crafting an Effective Public Participation Plan – pdf file
- Comprehensive Planning Fundamentals UW Extension Publication (.pdf)
- Required Elements of a Local Comprehensive Plan UW Extension Publication (.pdf)
- Key Points about Wisconsin’s Comprehensive Planning and Smart Growth Law UW Extension Publication (.pdf)
- Growning Greener: A Guide to Conservation Subdivisons – a 20 page PDF file from the Natural Lands Trust web site.
- Town of Grantsburg Comprehensive Plan
- Town of Blaine Comprehensive Plan
- Ashland County Wisconsin Comprehensive Plan (.pdf)
Links
- Land Use Tracker Newsletter – Center for Land Use Education
- Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association
- Planning Commissioner’s Journal: Planners Web
- West Wisconsin Land Trust
- National Lands Trust
- Gathering Waters Land Trust
- Cyburbia – The Urban Planning Portal (miscellaneous planning resources)
- Northwest Regional Planning Commission
- The Land Use Tracker: Top 10 Myths and Facts About Wisconsin’s “Smart Growth” Law



