Important Notice: Our web hosting provider recently started charging us for additional visits, which was unexpected. In response, we're seeking donations. Depending on the situation, we may explore different monetization options for our Community and Expert Contributors. It's crucial to provide more returns for their expertise and offer more Expert Validated Answers or AI Validated Answers. Learn more about our hosting issue here.

HOW HAS JANESVILLE USED COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING?

0
Posted

HOW HAS JANESVILLE USED COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING?

0

The Comprehensive Plan plays an active role in the growth of the City. It identifies the general areas appropriate for single and multi-family housing, commercial development, roads, bike trails, parks and more. This provides property owners and developers with an indication of how the community will evolve. The rational used to identify each of these uses can be adopted as city policy. For example, higher density multifamily housing may be deemed as an appropriate transitional land use between single-family residential areas and more intense commercial uses. The plan may identify that it is appropriate to have major arterial streets at one-mile intervals, creating streets with a grid configuration. These policies can then be used to evaluate applications for rezoning, or to identify where a street should be located and how it should be configured when the land is subdivided for development. In the case of land use planning and zoning, the proactive identification of land uses allows f

Related Questions

Thanksgiving questions

*Sadly, we had to bring back ads too. Hopefully more targeted.