§ 1. Issues and Opportunities

The City of Greenwood Year 2025 Comprehensive Plan will guide the future of the City of

Greenwood for the next twenty years. This document should be used in coordination with the

Clark County Inventory and Trends Report. These two documents together will meet the

requirements of Wisconsin's Comprehensive Planning Legislation, Wisconsin Statutes 66.1001.

For basic inventory and background information regarding Clark County please refer to the Clark County Inventory and Trends Report. Information which is more policy oriented or qualitative in nature for the City of Greenwood can be found in the remainder of this document.

Development of the City of Greenwood Comprehensive Plan was in response to the passage of Wisconsin's comprehensive planning legislation (Statute 66.1001). This law requires all municipalities (counties, cities, towns, and villages) to adopt a comprehensive plan by the year 2010 if they wish to make any local land use decisions. After the year 2010, any municipality that regulates land use must make their zoning, subdivision/land division, shoreland/floodplain, and official mapping decisions in accordance with that community's comprehensive plan.