At last night’s meeting of the Culver Town Council, I again broached the subject of funding a new Comprehensive Plan. (See previous entries on this subject here.) Apparently the idea of pursuing a new income survey has been shelved, so it now becomes a budget item that will need to be funded internally. At the behest of … Read more
20/20 Vision is what I’m dubbing my attempts to get Culver on track for a new Comprehensive Plan. Judging from the last one which has taken a little over 10 years to revise, shooting for a plan that would lay out goals for completion by the year 2020 seems like the place to start. I’ve been … Read more
There are three main stumbling blocks when people work on Comp Plans: 1) Looking toward a horizon decades away, 2) Looking past current property ownership/uses and 3) Separating the Comp Plan from the Zoning Ordinance.
For the last couple of years, I’ve been trying to get Culver to consider a Comprehensive Plan update. There are a few reasons for this: It’s just good practice. Most of the time it is recommended that a town’s comprehensive plan is reviewed and updated every five years with a new one completed every ten … Read more
I haven’t posted a good rant in a while, so… The “Brexit” vote has me thinking about voter responsibility. I honestly only knew about Brexit peripherally until about a week before the vote. I hadn’t paid a lot of attention to it for a couple of reasons: 1) I had no say, and 2) I … Read more