12-02-2014, 06:21 AM
It is a long term planning document which the planning department tends to ignore.
Exactly -- and if ignored often/long enough, the long-term future never arrives.
Meanwhile, the development paradigm is rapidly becoming obsolete. Adding lane-miles of highway so that more people can make trips to town is a poor investment strategy for "the future", but it's pretty clear that the landowners and/or NIMBYs want to keep everything stuck in the past.
CDPs were needed by the state to secure federal funds
In other words, a checkbox requirement for funding eligibility, not an actual "planning document" -- when viewed in this light, the whole thing makes a little more sense.
Exactly -- and if ignored often/long enough, the long-term future never arrives.
Meanwhile, the development paradigm is rapidly becoming obsolete. Adding lane-miles of highway so that more people can make trips to town is a poor investment strategy for "the future", but it's pretty clear that the landowners and/or NIMBYs want to keep everything stuck in the past.
CDPs were needed by the state to secure federal funds
In other words, a checkbox requirement for funding eligibility, not an actual "planning document" -- when viewed in this light, the whole thing makes a little more sense.