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How Comprehensive Plans Shape Fire, EMS, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Management
Part 1 of 5 in our August series on Public Safety and Hazard Mitigation in the Comprehensive Plan. Nearly every comprehensive plan includes a public safety chapter. Very few treat public safety as a land use outcome. The chapter lists the fire stations, notes the number of law enforcement officers per capita, mentions the local…
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Public Safety and the Comprehensive Plan: What’s Coming in August
Introducing our August series on Public Safety and Hazard Mitigation in the Comprehensive Plan. In too many communities, the comprehensive plan and the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan live in separate binders — prepared by separate offices, often in separate counties, by decisionmakers who may not know each other, let alone talk to one another. It’s…
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Conservation Tools in the Comprehensive Plan: Easements, CRP, and Land Trusts
Part 4 of 4 in our July series on Natural Resources and the Comprehensive Plan. Every year, somewhere in rural America, a family farm changes hands. Sometimes it stays a farm or ranch. Sometimes it becomes fifty or five hundred new houses. Most comprehensive plans never influence that decision — not because they lack good…
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