Planner outlines scope for county comprehensive-plan update; supervisors debate timing

Isaiah Corbin, a planner with the Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments, presented a proposed scope of work for updating Black Hawk County's comprehensive plan, which was adopted in 2001. Corbin recommended a process including existing-plan review, a quantitative community assessment, and robust public engagement (a 12–15 member task force, a countywide survey and open houses) that would inform a draft plan to be reviewed by the planning and zoning commission and then the board.