Comprehensive Plan

The comprehensive plan, sometimes also referred to as a master plan or a general plan, is the foundational document of long-term planning and zoning in the United States.

March 9, 2020 - James Brasuell

Questions of density and demographics are challenging a planning process in Ridgewood, New Jersey—the first plan update in the village in more than 30 years.

March 9, 2020 - NorthJersey

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council guided the town of North Reading, located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, through a new master planning process.

December 22, 2019 - Metropolitan Area Planning Council

Though it stops well short of a citywide upzoning, the city of Tacoma has still expanded its planned development envelope by upzoning residential neighborhoods around the city.

December 5, 2019 - The Urbanist

The first days of public engagement for Vancouver's new citywide plan began this week in Vancouver.

November 17, 2019 - Vancouver Sun

The D.C. Office of Planning has been updating its Comprehensive Plan since 2016. Next up is the very first chapter of the comp plan.

July 8, 2019 - Greater Greater Washington

A Florida man is accused of not realizing an entirely separate process would be required to implement the zoning changes recommended in a recently approved comprehensive plan.

April 1, 2019 - Planetizen April 1st Edition

Amarillo, a city of nearly 200,000 residents located in the Texas Panhandle, will rewrite its zoning ordinance for the first time in over 50 years.

March 15, 2019 - Statesman

Any aambitious plan will have to change on its way to adoption. The Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan not only kept many of its core ambitions intact through the political process, but expanded them.

November 30, 2018 - MinnPost

A parcel-by-parcel map of zoning changes included in the Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan.

October 15, 2018 - Star Tribune

Minneapolis planners have released a revise draft of the Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan, cutting back on some of the plan's most controversial aspects, but still maintaining an ambitiously urban approach.

October 1, 2018 - MinnPost

The Denveright plan puts pedestrians first, but could do more for public transportation and bikes, says a critique from Streetsblog Denver.

August 15, 2018 - Streetsblog Denver

The largest planning process in Denver's history has already completed two years of community engagement and planning work.

August 8, 2018 - The Denver Post

The city of Minneapolis is deploying many of the most contemporary planning tools as it works toward approval of the Minneapolis 2040 plan.

March 26, 2018 - MinnPost

A recent debate in Washington, D.C. echoed common concerns about the planning process in cities around the country.

March 22, 2018 - Greater Greater Washington

If the rezoning of single-family neighborhoods succeeds in Minneapolis as part of its ongoing Comprehensive Plan process, we could be looking at one of the most ambitious pro-development zoning schemes in the country.

March 12, 2018 - Minneapolis Star Tribune

The city of Long Beach's draft Land Use Element has provoked political forces that would like to cap the growth of the city.

October 15, 2017 - Long Beach Press-Telegram

San Antonio is changing, and the city's land use regulations aren't living up to the desires of the city's communities, according to one local architect and planner.

August 22, 2017 - Rivard Report

Cities have to prioritize displacement as a policy issue if they want to achieve inclusive growth, writes David Whitehead.

July 17, 2017 - Greater Greater Washington

Comprehensive plans can be big and unwieldy. Luckily for Washington, D.C., there are two maps that unlock of the plan's meaning.

November 18, 2016 - Greater Greater Washington