§ 1.6. State Comprehensive Planning Goals

Wisconsin's Comprehensive Planning Legislation established 14 local comprehensive planning goals to guide state land use actions and local planning efforts. Specifically, local units of government and state agencies are encouraged to design their programs, policies, infrastructure and investments to strike a balance between their individual missions and the local comprehensive planning goals. The following 14 local comprehensive planning goals were addressed throughout the planning process and within each element.

1. Promote the redevelopment of lands with existing infrastructure and public services and the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing residential, commercial and industrial structures.

2. Encourage neighborhood designs that support a range of transportation choices.

3. Protect natural areas, including wetlands, wildlife habitats, lakes and woodlands, open spaces and groundwater resources.

4. Protect economically productive areas, including farmland and forests.

5. Encourage land uses, densities and regulations that promote efficient development patterns and relatively low municipal, state government and utility costs.

6. Preserve cultural, historic and archaeological sites.

7. Encourage coordination and cooperation among nearby units of government.

8. Build community identity by revitalizing main streets and enforcing design standards.

9. Provide an adequate supply of affordable housing for all income levels throughout each community.

10. Provide adequate infrastructure and public services and a supply of develop able land to meet existing and future market demand for residential, commercial and industrial uses.

11. Promote the expansion or stabilization of the current economic base and the creation of a range of employment opportunities at the state, regional and local levels.

12. Balance individual property rights with community interests and goals.

13. Plan and develop land uses that create or preserve varied and unique urban and rural communities.

14. Provide an integrated, efficient and economical transportation system that provides mobility, convenience and safety which meets the needs of all citizens including transit-dependent and disabled.