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The purpose of a Comprehensive Plan is to guide future growth and development in the Town over the next 10 to 20 years. A comprehensive plan provides the vision and direction for natural resource protection, housing and economic development, transportation and community facilities, land use, intergovernmental relations, and other factors that together form the community’s future. Comprehensive planning was enacted to encourage long-range planning for communities and provide consistency in land use decision making. The Comprehensive Plan is a guide that elected officials, residents, and business owners can use for directing growth and redevelopment in the community. The Comprehensive Plan is a long-range policy document consisting of goals, objectives, and policies prepared to meet the State’s definition of a comprehensive plan as defined under Section 66.1001.
The purpose of a Comprehensive Plan is to guide future growth and development in the Town over the next 10 to 20 years. A comprehensive plan provides the vision and direction for natural resource protection, housing and economic development, transportation and community facilities, land use, intergovernmental relations, and other factors that together form the community’s future. Comprehensive planning was enacted to encourage long-range planning for communities and provide consistency in land use decision making. The Comprehensive Plan is a guide that elected officials, residents, and business owners can use for directing growth and redevelopment in the community. The Comprehensive Plan is a long-range policy document consisting of goals, objectives, and policies prepared to meet the State’s definition of a comprehensive plan as defined under Section 66.1001.
The Village of Camp Douglas Comprehensive Plan is intended to provide a guideline for development of the Village. Local officials shall use this document when making land use decisions. Numerous reasons exist for developing a comprehensive plan: To both assist in identifying and qualify for funding opportunities To identify areas appropriate for development and preservation over the next 20 years; To recommend land uses in specific areas of the Village; To establish community goals, objectives, and policies. This Comprehensive Plan was prepared to comply with the Comprehensive Plan State Statute 66.1001.
In the fall of 2021, the Town initiated a process to update its plan. The state planning law – 66.1001 – requires that a comprehensive plan be updated every ten years. A variety of Planning Commission meetings were held over the course of 2021 and 2022 to prepare the plan. A final Planning Commission meeting was held in the winter of 2022 to review the final draft and recommend adoption of the plan by the Town Board. The plan was adopted by the Town Board on April 4, 2022
The purpose of this plan is to analyze various county and tribal response efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify approaches to better address future pandemics. The overarching goal is to better prepare the region for future public health related disruptions.
The North Central Wisconsin Regional Health Pandemic Assessment Plan seeks to analyze county and tribal public health responses to coronavirus within the Region and to create recommendations that would assist counties and tribal entities to better manage health related disruptions in the future. The goals of this assessment include:
Analyzing county and tribal response to the COVID-19 pandemic including
1. Identifying key priority areas
2. Analyzing what did and did not work well and where additional support was needed to maintain best practices
3. Creating recommendations to better deal with future pandemic and health related disruptions
The purpose of this plan is to guide economic stabilization, recovery, and resiliency efforts within the North Central Wisconsin Region in the face of the current pandemic as well as future events that cause economic shocks. The goal of this plan is to develop a set of strategies that will help the Region’s local economies recover from and become more resilient to economic shocks by identifying best-practice strategies that help spur economic stabilization and recovery in the wake of economic shocks and that will help build local economic resilience. Helping local recovery and resiliency efforts will help the regional economy as a whole recover and grow back even stronger than before the disaster struck.
As part of the planning process, five foundational pillars were identified as being crucial for the future prosperity of North Central Wisconsin. These five pillars include: Broadband, Childcare, Housing & Transportation, Workforce & Talent Attraction, and Tourism & Hospitality.
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The Regional Recovery Plan contains the following chapters:
1 – Introduction
2 – Economic Environment
3 – The Disruption
4 – Analysis of Foundational Pillars
5 – Regional Recovery Strategy
Assessment Reports
As part of the Regional Recovery Plan planning process, five Assessment Reports were prepared covering the five foundational pillars identified by the Advisory Committee as being critical for a strong economic recovery and increasing economic resilience within North Central Wisconsin: Broadband, Childcare, Housing & Transportation, Workforce & Talent Attraction, and Tourism & Hospitality.
Each of the Assessment Reports contains the following six sections:
Introduction
Status
Issues
Impact of COVID-19
Benefits of Improving the Status of Each Pillar
Vision
Access to each Assessment Report is available below:
As the Region continues to recover from the pandemic and build towards a more prosperous future, local communities and organizations can use the North Central Wisconsin Regional Recovery Dashboard to help track the Region’s progress on issues that were identified in the Regional Recovery Plan as crucial to the prosperity of North Central Wisconsin.
