About the Town of Brookville Comprehensive Plan
The Town of Brookville Comprehensive Plan is a strategic framework designed to guide the growth and development of our community. This plan serves as a blueprint for decision-making in areas such as land use, public investments, and capital improvement programs. It aims to balance economic development with the preservation of our natural and cultural resources, ensuring a sustainable and vibrant future for all residents.
Components of the Plan
The key components of the plan are listed below. This is a tentative list of topics that the OCRA plan intends to cover, these may evolve over the course of the planning process.
Land Use: Establishes guidelines for the development and use of land, ensuring that growth is managed in a way that is consistent with the community's vision and goals.
Economic Development: Focuses on strategies to attract and retain businesses, create jobs, develop local workforce, and stimulate economic growth while maintaining the city's unique character.
Housing: Addresses the need for diverse and affordable housing options to accommodate residents of all income levels and life stages.
Transportation: Plans for a comprehensive transportation network that improves connectivity, reduces congestion, and promotes alternative modes of transportation.
Public Services and Facilities: Ensures that public services and infrastructure, such as water, sewer, and emergency services, are adequate to meet the county’s future needs.
Natural and Cultural Resources: Emphasizes the protection and enhancement of the county’s natural landscapes, historic sites, farmland, and cultural assets.
Community Engagement: Encourages active participation from residents, businesses, and stakeholders in the planning process to ensure that the plan reflects the community's values and priorities.
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Community Engagement
The Comprehensive Plan should ultimately be a document that serves the community's needs. To achieve this, robust community engagement is a crucial element.
The team developing the Comprehensive Plan is taking multiple measures to ensure that residents and business owners are included in the planning process. Engagement efforts for the plan include:
Stakeholder Sessions: Meetings with residents, local leaders, and business owners to gauge the community's needs going forward.
Public Engagement Events: Open houses and attendance at community events give residents opportunities to speak with the project team and voice their opinions.
Community Survey: A publicly available online survey with questions aimed at understanding what people love about Brookville and what they would like to see improved.
Steering Committee Meetings: Regular meetings with a set steering committee comprising a representative cross-section of Brookville where collective decision-making guides the plan drafting.
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Implementation of the Plan
The Town of Brookville Comprehensive Plan is meant to be implemented over the next 10-20 years. The town should evaluate the plan regularly to gauge progress towards successful implementation.
The plan will develop goals for the community and provide strategies to achieve these goals. Some strategies will be designated as Critical Path Strategies, which will be accompanied by detailed information on who should lead their implementation and the steps to do so. Critical Path Strategies can be implemented shortly after the plan's adoption and help to get the ball rolling on ultimately achieving the plan's goals. These strategies will be one of the last items drafted when developing the plan.
THE PROJECT TEAM
City/County has partnered with American Structurepoint to develop the Comprehensive Plan. American Structurepoint is a multi-disciplinary engineering, architecture, and planning firm with clients across the country. The project team for the City/County Plan works out of the Indianapolis headquarters and is listed below:
Rachel Cardis
Project Manager
American Structurepoint
Ashley Newnam
Senior Planner
American Structurepoint