Are We Doing Doing This Right? // Comprehensive Plans Edition

For this month’s edition of ‘Are We Doing This Right?’, we’re turning our attention to the comprehensive plan. There’s a lot to talk about, including:

• History! Where did comp plans come from?
• How to know when your city’s comprehensive plan is outdated (or even harmful)
• An alternative vision for what comprehensive plans could be… from all the way back in 1967
• Why some comprehensive plans just sit on the shelf gathering dust
• What it means for comprehensive plans to “fail”—and what causes failure (from AJ’s experience)
• Some examples of comprehensive plans we like, for one reason or another
• Are comprehensive plans really necessary?
• Best practices for comprehensive plans

Want to do some further research on the topic? Head on over to the show page for this episode to find a list of resources we found helpful in compiling this show.

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