Master Plan Project
This website is provided for the residents of the City of Lebanon and others interested in the development and implementation of Lebanon’s Master Plan. Use the links above to access more detailed information about the Master Plan and its development process.
Master Plan Process
The Planning Board adopted a Master Plan in 2006; the goal of this subsequent effort is to engage the community in a process to determine relevancy of the visions, issues, and action items contained within the 2006 Master Plan, and revise as necessary.
Zoning amendments were crafted based upon the 2006 Master Plan; these amendments were placed before the voters in March of 2008. The ballot item was rejected and the zoning was therefore left unchanged. The City Council suggested taking a second look at the Master Plan, hence the revision process initiated in June 2008.
The Planning Board thereafter established a Master Plan Steering Committee. This committee was tasked with establishing a public participation process. This process includes community forums, surveys, and work sessions with citizen volunteers, with the intent to receive as much public input as possible. The next step is for the Planning Board to review the chapters and then forward the plan to the City Council for their review. At the conclusion of the City Council chapter review, the document will be brought back before the Planning Board for adoption.
Master Plan Schedule
The entire process is expected to take approximately 21 months. Click here to view the current schedule of Planning Board chapter review. As the Planning Board continues their review your input is welcome. Copies of the current draft are available in the Planning Office as are comment cards that you may submit for consideration. The Planning Board recieves public comment at each of their review sessions, see the schedule linked above for which
evenings may interest you.
Current Progress:
The Planning Board is reviewing all of the chapters of the Master Plan that the Master Plan Subcommittees worked on diligently last spring. This effort is producing many recommended changes to both existing language and the subcommittee suggestions that the Planning Office will compile in the coming weeks. As this task is completed, an independent editor will be engaged to review each chapter for grammatical and other errors and consistency.
Once this initial Planning Board process is complete, the chapters will then be sent to the City Council for their comment. The Master Plan is, by law, a Planning Board document; however, it is the desire of the City to have both the City Council and the Planning Board adopt the document. The Planning Board will accept comment from the City Council and evaluate and incorporate these comments as appropriate into the final version of the Master Plan.
The Planning Office anticipates that the Planning Board will complete their initial review at the end of April 2010. At that time, the review by the City Council will commence and it is expected that the final adoption of the Master Plan will be completed in late summer or early fall of 2010.
As this process winds down the Zoning amendment process will get underway. The Planning Office will be preparing draft zoning regulations that conform to the policies laid out within the newly adopted Master Plan. It is the intention of the City to have the zoning amendments that require voter referendum to be on the March 2011 ballot.
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