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Planning commission refines comprehensive plan language, renames utilities section and prepares joint review
Summary
At a Madison County Planning Commission workshop, commissioners and staff worked through edits to the draft comprehensive plan, agreed to rename the utilities chapter to include communications, flagged unexplained traffic-count figures for removal, and set steps for joint review and public hearing.
Madison County Planning Commission members met in a workshop to review draft edits to the county comprehensive plan and agreed on several substantive text changes and next steps for public review.
Commissioners instructed staff to rename the chapter now titled “Public Utilities” to “Public Utility and Communications Plan” (or similar language) and to add clarifying language that explicitly includes communication providers such as cellular broadband, fixed wireless, and cable TV. Commissioners also directed a technical cleanup so that every instance of “utility” or “public…
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