Comprehensive Planning
Think back to 1987 and the community in which you lived. Remembering the community then, compare it to what you see today. Are you pleased with the changes? Are there aspects of the community that you wish could be altered in some way? Just as Oconto County has seen changes during the last 20 years, there will be changes throughout the next 20 years. Change is inevitable; however, planning allows a community to proactively address all aspects of it.

What are the projected population changes in Oconto County from 2000 - 2025? Click here for Map

Oconto County Planning

Now take a moment to look into the planning activities occurring in your local community and across Oconto County. The link below will take you step by step from the basics of planning in Wisconsin to the draft documents and timelines associated with the current planning project underway in Oconto County.

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Local Land Use Links:

• Guides on How to Write Elements of a Comprehensive Plan
• 10 Myths about Comprehensive Planning
• Oconto County's Planning Process (history) - General Information - Comprehensive Planning
• FAQs Publication: Comprehensive Planning & Smart Growth Law FAQs (7 pages, 178 KB)
• Improving private woodlands as wildlife habitat

Resources:

• Plan Commission Handbook (1229 KB). May 2002.  This handbook is intended to assist plan commission members in understanding their various roles and related practices and law, and to help local government officials and citizens understand the role of the commission and their relationship to it.
• Zoning Board Handbook (279 KB). July 2001.  This handbook is intended to assist zoning board members, local government officials and citizens in understanding the role of the zoning board and the procedures and standards with which their decisions must comply.
• UW-Extension Land Use Planning and Policy Publications
• Population and Census

Planning Clusters: Planning Clusters Map

Northern - (Information on Communities Progress)
(Town of: Brazeau (north), Doty, Lakewood, Mountain, Riverview, Townsend)

Central - (Information on Communities Progress)
(Town of: Bagley, Brazeau (south), Breed, Gillett, How, Maple Valley, Oconto Falls, Spruce, Underhill, Suring. City of: Gillett & Oconto Falls)

Southern - (Information on Communities Progress)
(Town of: Abrams, Chase, Lena, Little River, Little Suamico, Morgan, Oconto, Pensaukee, Stiles. Village of Lena.
City of Oconto

General Land Use Links:

• UW-Extension Center for Land Use Education
• Growth Management Program - UW-Extension Local Government Center
• Law of the Land Review
• 1000 Friends
• Smart Growth Online
• Center for Livable Communities

Publications:

•  Building our Future: A Guide to Community Visioning (G3708) 276 pp, 1.31 MB
•  Creating a Vision for Your Community--More on the Art of of Community Development (G3617) 91pp, 917.4 KB
•  Sheltered Housing for Older People: Getting Started (B3437) 47 pp, 171.1 KB

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