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Consultant presents draft comprehensive (vision) plan; trustees hear recommendations on land use, housing, four focus areas and connectivity
Summary
Jay Stewart of Stewart Land Use presented the first-draft update to Fairfield Township’s comprehensive (vision) plan, stressing the importance of the future land use map and recommending focused redevelopment areas.
Jay Stewart of Stewart Land Use presented the first-draft update to Fairfield Township’s comprehensive plan during the trustees’ June 17 meeting, summarizing major recommendations on land use, housing, four focus areas and pedestrian connectivity.
The central takeaway, Stewart said, is the future land use map: “The future land use map, is the single, probably most important page of of any comprehensive plan or vision plan in terms of how it affects, and directs, and informs, rezonings,” he told trustees, urging close review of parcels along corridors such as Princeton Road.
Why it matters: the plan will guide rezoning, long-range capital and economic-development decisions. Stewart told trustees Fairfield Township is approaching buildout, so remaining developable parcels merit careful, selective decisions.
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