Anne Krieg, AICPBridgton Director of

Planning, Economic & Community Development

Comprehensive PlanningWe need a plan from which to deviate

Golden Gate Park

• Olmsted was there first• Daniel Burnham weighed in• William Hammond Hall surveyor completed

Charles Burnham Chicago Plan

The Plan focused on six major physical elements:1. improving the lakefront2. developing a highway system3. improving the freight and passenger railway

systems4. acquisition of an outer park system5. arranging systematic streets; and6. creation of a civic center of cultural institutions

and government.

Regional Plan of NY

You may draw all the lines you please between counties and states, a city is a growth responding to forces not at all political (Elihu Root, Committee member)

Cincinnati Plan

No plan on paper is fully effective until it becomes a Citizens’ Plan.

Tennessee Valley

AuthorityIt is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers

Stanford Industrial

Park

…a serious young engineer had to go back east to put spit and polish on his education. (Frederick Terman)

Reston Virginia

Oregon Statewide Land Use Law

sagebrush subdivisions, coastal condomania, and the ravenous rampages of suburbia (Governor Tom McCall)

Comprehensive Planning in Maine

• 1987• State agency review• State goals• Regional review

Requirements• Inventory & Analysis• Policy Development

Implementation StrategyRegional Coordination

Inventory

• Economic & demographics• Water resources• Critical natural resources• Forestry & agriculture

• Recreation & parks• Transportation • Housing

• Historical resources• Land use• Capital facilities & town services

Policy Development

• Growth areas• Discourage incompatible development• Transitional areas• Capital Investment Plan• Protection of water bodies, natural resources and forestry & agriculture• Affordable housing• Outdoor recreation

Bridgton’s Plan• Fall 2014 schedule• Public Process• History of Committee