This document describes the process
proposed to the Board for updating the countywide plan.
While the County intends to follow the work plan outlined
in this document if approved, the process may be modified
to react to lessons learned and to include new information
and ideas. Flexibility will help to ensure success
for the overall process.
This extensive and comprehensive
effort would include an informational and consensus
building process, called In My Backyard: Community Outreach
for Community Consensus.
The process would result in two main documents that will make up the overall
Carroll County Comprehensive Plan – the Carroll County Concept Plan and
the Carroll County Action Plan. Upon adoption of the Action Plan, the community
outreach process would continue immediately developing and implementing higher
priority recommendations.
The countywide plan process seeks to develop communitywide
support for a new direction that will retain the heritage, quality of life,
and special places of Carroll County. Key goals for
the public participation process, called In
My Backyard: Community Outreach for Community Consensus include encouraging
as many members of different types of “communities” as possible to
participate, discussing key issues in small, comfortable group settings where
people live and work, and developing community ownership in the process and a
consensus of support for the County’s future direction.
We will be reaching
out in new ways – with an emphasis on greater e-participation
and youth participation opportunities to allow participation by more community
members.
A PowerPoint slide show covering the proposed
process to update the Carroll County Comprehensive
Plan can also be viewed.
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