[To see a brief explanation of each element, click on the link below.]
[To see a draft of the element (if it is available) click on the the name in CAPITAL LETTERS)
Includes background information on the township and a
statement of overall objectives, policies, goals, and
programs of the township to guide
future develop over a 20-year planning period. Background
information shall include
population, household and employment forecasts that the
township uses in developing its
comprehensive plan, and demographic trends, age
distribution, educational levels, income
levels, and employment characteristics that exist in the
township.
[return to top of page]
A
compilation of objectives, policies, goals, maps, and
programs of the
township to provide an adequate housing supply that
meets existing and forecasted housing
demand in the township. This element of the plan shall
assess the age, structural, value,
and occupancy characteristics of the township’s housing
stock. This element of the plan
shall identify specific policies and programs that promote
the development of housing for
residents of the township and provide a range of housing
choices that meet the needs of
persons of all income levels and of all age groups and
persons with special needs, policies
and programs that promote the availability of land for the
development or redevelopment of
low income and moderate housing, and policies and programs
to maintain or rehabilitate
the township’s housing stock.
[return to top of page]
A compilation of objectives, policies, goals, maps,
and programs of the township to guide the future
development of the various modes of
transportation, including highways, transit,
transportation systems for persons with
disabilities, bicycles, walking, railroads, air
transportation, trucking, and water
transportation. This element of the plan shall compare
the township’s objectives, policies,
goals, and programs to state and regional (county)
transportation plans. This element of
the plan shall also identify highways within the township
by function and incorporate state,
regional and other transportation plans including
transportation corridor plans, county
highway functional and jurisdictional studies, urban area
and rural area transportation plans,
airport master plans and rail plans that apply to the
township.
[return to top of page]
A compilation of objectives, policies,
goals,
maps, and programs of the township to guide the future
development of utilities and community
facilities in the township such as sanitary sewer service,
storm water management, water supply,
solid waste disposal, on-site wastewater treatment
technologies, recycling facilities, parks,
telecommunications facilities, power-generating plants and
transmission lines, cemeteries,
health care facilities, child care facilities, and other
public facilities such as police, fire
and rescue facilities, libraries, schools, and other
government facilities. This element of the
plan shall describe the location, use, and capacity of
existing public utilities and community
facilities that serve the township, shall include an
approximate timetable that forecasts the
need of the township to expand or rehabilitate existing
utilities and facilities or to create
new utilities and facilities and shall assess future needs
for government services in the
township that are related to such utilities and facilities.
[return to top of page]
A compilation of objectives,
policies, goals, maps, and programs for the
conservation and promotion of the
effective management of natural resources such as
groundwater, forests, productive
agricultural areas, environmentally sensitive areas,
threatened and endangered
species, stream corridors, surface water, floodplains,
wetlands, wildlife habitats,
metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources, parks, open
spaces, historical and
cultural resources, community design, recreational
resources, and other natural
resources.
[return to top of page]
A compilation of objectives, policies,
goals, maps and
programs to promote the stabilization, retention, or
expansion of the economic base and
quality employment opportunities in the township,
including and analysis of the labor force
and economic base of the township. This element of the
plan shall assess the categories or
particular types of new businesses and industries that are
desired by the township [the
people of the township?]. This element of the plan shall
assess the township’s strengths
and weaknesses with respect to attracting and retaining
businesses and industries. This
element of the plan shall also evaluate and promote the
use of environmentally
contaminated site for commercial or industrial uses. The
element shall also identify county,
regional, and state economic development programs that
apply to the township.
[return to top of page]
A compilation of objectives, policies,
goals,
maps and programs for joint planning and decision
making with other jurisdictions, including
school districts and adjacent local governmental units,
for siting and building public facilities
and sharing public services. This element of the plan
shall analyze the relationship of the
township to school districts and adjacent local
governmental units and the region, the
county, the state and other governmental units. This
element of the plan shall incorporate
any plans and agreements to which the township unit is a
party under s. 66.023, 66.30, or
66.945 (?). The element shall identify existing or
potential conflicts between the township
and other governmental units that are specified in this
paragraph and describe processes to
resolve such conflicts.
[return to top of page]
A
compilation of objectives, policies, goals, maps and
programs to
guide the future development and redevelopment of
public and private property. The
element shall contain a listing of the amount, type,
intensity, and net density of existing
uses of land in the township, such as agricultural,
residential, commercial, industrial, and
other public and private uses. This element of the plan
shall analyze trends in the supply,
demand, and price of land, opportunities for development
and existing and potential land-
use conflicts. This element of the plan shall contain
projections, based on the background
information in the Issues and Opportunities element for 20
years with detailed maps, in
five-year increments, of future residential, agricultural,
commercial, and industrial land uses
including the assumptions of net densities or other
spatial assumptions upon which the
projections are based. This element of the plan shall
also include a series of maps that
shows current land uses and future land uses that indicate
productive agricultural soils,
natural limitations or building site development,
floodplains, wetlands, and other
environmentally sensitive land, the boundaries of areas to
which services of public utilities
and community facilities, as those terms are used in
section 4 above, will be provided in the
future consistent with the timetable described in that
section and the general location of
future land users by net density or other classifications.
[return to top of page]
A
compilation of programs and specific actions to be
completed in a stated sequence, including proposed
changes to any applicable zoning
ordinances, official maps, sign regulations, erosion and
storm water control ordinances,
historic preservation ordinances, site plan regulations,
design review ordinances, building
codes, mechanical codes, housing codes, sanitary codes or
subdivision ordinances, to
implement the objectives, policies, plans, and programs
contained in the paragraphs above.
This element of the plan shall describe how each of the
elements in the comprehensive plan
will be integrated and made consistent with the other
elements of the comprehensive plan
and shall include a mechanism to measure the township’s
progress toward achieving all
aspects of the comprehensive plan. This element of the
plan shall include a process for
updating the comprehensive plan. A comprehensive plan
under this subsection shall be
updated no less than once every 10 years.
[return to top of page]
This statement of the elements of a comprehensive plan was
edited and modified from the
Wisconsin Smart Growth Legislation (66.095 Comprehensive
planning) by Bruce Meyers for
the Board of Supervisors of the Town of Round Lake and for
citizens of the town.
Created on ... Dec. 16, 2006; updated April 6, 2007