ABSTRACT
A comprehensive master plan is compiled by city administrators, elected city officials, and the public to determine future needs of a municipality in terms of revenue, land use, infrastructure, transportation, economic development, and municipal facilities for a given municipality. The purpose of this step provides the basic assessment and to determine whether the community should proceed with comprehensive planning. A communication plan should be devised by city administrators in conjunction with elected officials, to be inclusive of all groups that could potentially be impacted by the comprehensive master plan. The land use component is typically the most time consuming and complicated issue for the city planners to contend with on the comprehensive master plan due to planning and zoning issues. Probably one of the most significant and far reaching provisions of the comprehensive plan is the requirement that all local master comprehensive plans should contain a capital improvements element.
