Comprehensive Plan Update

• A guide for desirable development and redevelopment

• A guide for improving the physical environment of the County as a setting for human activity…to make it more functional, beautiful, decent, healthful, interesting and efficient

• A framework for management, enhancement and preservation of the natural and man-made environment

• A statement of policy…a declaration of long range goals and how to achieve them

• An expression of the County’s assessment of itself and a vision of what it can become

• A means for guiding, influencing and achieving coordination in public and private decision making…an effort to make sure that today’s decision will lead to tomorrow’s goal

• A means for collaboration amongst diverse interests in a constructive manner that achieves consensus on controversial issues

• Land Use

• Housing

• Transportation

• Community Facilities

• Utilities

• Natural Resources

• Agricultural Resources

• Future Goals

Since the last comprehensive plan was adopted in 2009, changes and influences have come to each of the categories of the major components of the plan. The needs and direction of land use, transportation, housing etc. have changed due to a variety of factors and the County Comprehensive Plan needs to reflect those changes in order to guide future decision making.

Your job, as a citizen, business owner, worker, etc. of Union County is to give us your input! The update process will include various opportunities for you to tell us what is important to you. Surveys, public meetings and stakeholder interviews are some of the ways your voice can be heard. This feedback and input is an integral part of the Comprehensive planning process. So be on the lookout for these opportunities in the coming months!