Maricopa County outlines public feedback and timeline for comprehensive plan update

Adam Cannon, planning and development staff for Maricopa County, told the Planning and Zoning Commission that the county has completed two rounds of public participation for its comprehensive-plan update and expects a draft plan by late summer or early fall.

Cannon said the update is state mandated once every 10 years and that the county’s plan was last adopted in 2016. “We were last here in January to update the commission on the comprehensive plan. So we came to update you on round 1 of our public participation. We're here today to give you an update on how that's going because we just held round 2 of our public participation,” he said.

The presentation summarized outreach methods—including five in-person meetings in each supervisor district plus a “grand” virtual meeting for each round—and online tools: a…