Northumberland supervisors approve three chapters of comprehensive plan, set public hearing for July

Northumberland County supervisors voted to approve revised drafts of chapters 1, 2 and 4 of the county comprehensive plan and scheduled a public hearing on the full plan in late July as staff works to finish Chapter 3 on water quality.

The approvals came after staff presenter Stuart Klaus walked the board through a red-line version and said the edits were largely rhetorical or clarifying, changing many instances of “should” to phrasing such as “should continue to” so the text reads as existing policy rather than new directives. Klaus told the board he expected to circulate Chapter 3 — the water-quality chapter — to a technical reviewer and to deliver an updated appendix before the next meeting.

Board members said the revised draft is more readable and moves the plan closer to final approval. “We are making very good progress,” Klaus told the…