Warren County Comprehensive Plan review underway

Following the July 10th Warren County Planning Commission meeting, the Commission went into a work session to start the Comprehensive Plan review process. The first chapter of the Plan to be reviewed is Chapter 3 – Natural Resources.

You can view the Comprehensive Plan on the Warren County site: Chapter 3: Natural Resources

This process is scheduled to run until December 2020.

The schedule will be:

July-August 2019 – Chapter 3 (Natural Resources)
September-October 2019 – Chapter 2 (Demographics)
October-November-2019 – Chapter 4 (Growth Management and Land Use)
December 2019-January 2020 – Chapter 5 (Community Facilities)
February-March 2020 – Chapter 6 (Economic Development)
April-May 2020 – Chapter 7 – (Infrastructure)
June 2020 – (Implementation)
July 2020 – Prepare final revisions
August-September 2020 – Planning Commission – Public Hearing
October 2020 – Present Comprehensive Plan to Board of Supervisors
November-December 2020 – Board of Supervisors – Public Hearing

From the County’s website:

The Comprehensive Plan is the County’s official policy guide for future development related decisions. The Plan is long-range in nature, and provides a picture of how the community wishes to develop over the next 15 to 20 years.

As a policy document, the Plan provides a framework for the County’s residents and decision makers to conceptualize how the County should look and function. Within each chapter of the Plan, there are implementation strategies identified. All or some portion of the strategies may be implemented to accomplish the goals and objectives for any particular topic addressed in the Plan. The major purposes of the Comprehensive Plan are:

• Provide a guide for the numerous public and private decisions that will create the future County.
• Promote the interests of the community as a whole.
• Enhance, describe, and promote the County’s physical environment.
• Develop a coordinated, well-planned system of public services.
• Evaluate short-term actions against long-term goals.
• Recognize the natural resources, historical, and architectural significance of Warren County and the surrounding area so that they can be more effectively preserved, protected, and integrated into an orderly pattern of development.
• Fulfill the legal requirement of Chapter 11, Title 15.1 of the Code of Virginia.
• The overall goal of the comprehensive plan is to: Maintain and enhance the quality and character of Warren County’s natural and man-made environment by promoting the efficient use and conservation of the County’s land and natural resources in order to effectively meet the social and economic needs of present and future citizens.