comprehensive planning

Comprehensive planning provides local governments with a guide to community physical, social, and economic development. Comprehensive plans provide a rational basis for local land use decisions with a 20-year vision for future planning and community decisions. The Wisconsin Comprehensive Planning Law requires public participation at the local level in deciding a vision for the community's future. The uniqueness of individual comprehensive plans reflects community-specific and locally driven planning processes.

A comprehensive plan must include all of the nine elements listed below as defined by the Comprehensive Planning Law (s. 66.1001). Local governments, however may choose to include additional elements, based on specific needs and desires.

  • Issues and Opportunities
  • Housing
  • Transportation
  • Utilities and Community Facilities
  • Agricultural, Natural and Cultural Resources
  • Economic Development
  • Intergovernmental Cooperation
  • Land Use
  • Implementation

A central aspect of implementing a comprehensive plan is exercising land use regulation authorities. According to s. 66.1001, beginning on January 1, 2010, if a town, village, city, or county enacts or amends an official mapping, subdivision, or zoning ordinance, the enactment or amendment ordinance must be consistent with that community's comprehensive plan.

Comprehensive plans must be updated no less than once every 10 years according to s. 66.1001(2)(i).


recently completed plans

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Town of Ahnapee,
Kewaunee County
December 2023
Final Document
Future Land Use Map

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Village of Mishicot,
Manitowoc County
April 2023
Final Document
Future Land Use Map

 

                                                          

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                           

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Village of Luxemburg,
Kewaunee County
March 2023
Final Document
Future Land Use Map

                                                                                    

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                    

 

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City of Two Rivers,
Manitowoc County
November 2022
Final Document
Future Land Use Map

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City of Plymouth,
Sheboygan County
October 2022
Final Document
Future Land Use Map

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Town of Grover,
Marinette County
July 2022
Final Document
Future Land Use Map

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Town of Gardner,
Door County
July 2022
Final Document
Future Land Use Map
Poster Side 1
Poster Side 2

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Town of Kossuth, 
Manitowoc County
April 2022
Final Document
Future Land Use Map

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City of Marinette,
Marinette County
November 2021
Final Document
Future Land Use Map
Story Map

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Village of Cedar Grove, Sheboygan County
November 2021
Final Document
Future Land Use Map

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Florence County
November 2020
Final Document
Future Land Use Map

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City of Gillett,
Oconto County
September, 2020
Final Document
Future Land Use Map

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Manitowoc County
August, 2020
Final Document
Future Land Use Map
Story Map

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Town of Sevastopol,
Door County
November, 2019
Final Document
Future Land Use Map
Story Map

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Town of Pittsfield,
Brown County
November, 2019
Final Document
Future Land Use Map
Poster Side 1
Poster Side 2

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Village of Cleveland,
Manitowoc County
September, 2019
Final Document
Future Land Use Map


For more information on the Commission's comprehensive planning services, please contact:

Brandon Robinson, Executive Director
Phone: (920) 448-2820, Ext. 105
Email: brobinson@baylakerpc.org