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Comprehensive Plan

Comprehensive Plan Committee

     The Comprehensive Plan Committee has no fixed upper limit on its membership. Volunteers are appointed by the Board of Selectmen.
     The Committee is responsible for implementing the Growth Management Program, preparing and implementing the Comprehensive Plan and its periodic updates and also for proposing zoning ordinance changes to implement the Future Land Use Plan.
     The Committee's role may include overseeing planning staff or consultants to accomplishing much of the technical planning work itself. The Committee seeks to maintain a plan that reflects the public interest, not self-interest. The Committee's role is advisory and it makes recommendations to the municipal reviewing authority and municipal legislative body regarding the adoption, implementation, changes and amendments to the Plan.  
     The Committee holds public hearings and uses other methods to solicit citizen input and participation. Everyone is encouraged to attend any of the meetings, and if you have any questions, or would like to join the Committee, contact any member.
     A Comprehensive Plan begins with understanding current conditions and trends, and then, by analyzing them and proposing directions for the future.  Those proposals rest on the community’s vision for how it sees itself now and in the future.  This vision shapes the Plan.  From our work and public input over the last few years, this is what the Comprehensive Plan Committee understands to be the vision of our town’s residents for its future – a community not so very different from the one we currently live in.  The members of our committee would like to hear from you, whether you agree with this draft of the vision, want to modify it, or strongly disagree with some element of it.  It is upon this vision that our plan and its recommendations will rest.

Comprehensive Plan 2010

Chapters 1 - 3.  Table of Contents, Introduction, Vision Statement, History

Chapter 4.  Issues and Policy Summary

Chapter 5.  The Plan: Issues/Recommendations

Chapter 6.  Current and Future Land Use

Appendices 1 - 3. Population and Demographics, Economy, Housing

Appendices 4 - 13.  Historical and Archaeological Resources, Water Resources, Critical and Natural Resources, Agricultural and Forestry, Marine Resources, Recreation, Public Facilities and Services, Transportation, Land Use

Appendix 14.  Fiscal Capacity and Capital Investment Planning

                        Private Roads, Built and Vacant Lots

Appendix 15.  Capital Investment Plan 2010

Appendices 16 - 19.  Regional Coordination, State Growth Management Goals, State Coastal Management Policies, Public Participation and Acknowledgements

2010 CP Maps

Future Land Use
Historic, Archaeological and Scenic Sites
Public Water Supply
Sewer Line
Transportation
ME DOT SWH Transportation
Current Zoning
SWH Growth Over Time
​Development Constraints
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2010 CP Survey (August 2009)                            2010 CP Questions

August 2009 Survey Results
2009 Survey Summary
Question 11 Responses
Question 13 Responses
Question 20d and 31d Responses
Question 22 Responses
Question 25 Responses
Question 39 Responses
Question 44 Responses
​Question 45 Responses

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