Yavapai County issued the following announcement on Jan. 28.
You may have noticed that your city or town is growing! It’s true! Yavapai County is growing and developing at rates never seen before. People move here from all over the world, and who can blame them! Yavapai County has so many things going for it. The question is, how can the County grow and develop responsibly? That’s where the Comprehensive Plan comes in. The Yavapai County Comprehensive Plan is the County’s roadmap for protecting and maintaining community character by integrating community-level goals and policies.
It contains the long-term community vision for where to grow and what to protect in the future. It helps guide good commercial development in appropriate areas and identifies places of special significance that should be preserved and protected. In the State of Arizona, all cities, towns and counties are required by law to update their Comprehensive Plans every ten years. Comprehensive Plans are required to address, at a minimum, eight important elements: Land Use, Growth areas, Transportation, Water Resources, Energy, Open Space, Environmental, Cost of Development.
Each of these elements work together to create a roadmap for future responsible growth. Updating the Comprehensive Plan is a huge undertaking. It takes County staff and volunteers hundreds of hours to research, review, revise and edit information that goes into this long-term document. The Comprehensive Plan Committee is a group of local volunteers and elected officials who meet each month to discuss and review proposed information for the update. Meeting times and locations are posted on the County’s website, and members of the public are always welcome to come observe or provide public comment. How does the Comprehensive Plan help your community? The Comprehensive Plan establishes policies used to guide future growth and developments. It shows where growth is happening in the County and where that growth is likely to continue. It helps County staff identify the best places for new roads and infrastructure. It helps to identify the needs of each community, such as where new fire stations should be built. It also identifies what is important to communities, such as new parks or open space.
You can help create the roadmap of the future for your community! We need your help to identify the priorities in your community. You can get involved by visiting the Yavapai County Comprehensive Plan website www.planningyavapai2032.org and completing the online surveys. The surveys cover a variety of topics related to your community that will help identify the needs and priorities of your community over the next ten years. The online surveys will be available to the public through the summer of 2022.
Your community needs your help! Get involved in the Comprehensive Plan update and help build the roadmap of the future for Yavapai County!
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