What is a comprehensive plan?

FAQ:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding the La Plata County
Comprehensive Plan, Land Use Planning, and Zoning (Download PDF)

A county comprehensive plan is a policy document that describes what county residents want the community to be in the future. In particular, a comprehensive plan “guides” the County’s quality of life and land use direction.

Five factors make a plan comprehensive:

• The plan covers the entire geography of the county.
  The plan integrates authentic and diverse community participation that includes people across the county and spans the full-range of interest groups and cultures.
  
  
• The time horizon considered in the plan is long-range, extending one or two decades into the future and beyond the pressing concerns of today.
  
  
• The plan provides general guidance on where and how growth and resources should be managed.
  
  
• The plan clarifies relationships between physical, social and economic development goals.

Colorado statutes enable towns and counties to develop and adopt comprehensive plans to address the health, safety, and welfare of the community. The planning commissions recommend and certify the plan to the elected officials, the Board of County Commissioners, who then adopt the plan.

What is a comprehensive plan?

What is in a comprehensive plan?

How are comprehensive plans used?

Is a comprehensive plan regulatory?

What is the La Plata County Planning Hierarchy?

Why are we updating the Comprehensive Plan?

What is a Future Land Use Plan?