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Newport News staff outlines timeline and public outreach for comprehensive plan update
Summary
City staff presented a status update on the "One City, Our Future 2040" comprehensive plan, citing public outreach rounds, new interactive visuals, and an aim to deliver a draft by year-end; council members asked about coordination with the city's strategic housing work.
Brian Swetz, assistant director for comprehensive planning, told the Newport News City Council at its July 22 work session that staff is drafting an update to the city's comprehensive plan, "One City, Our Future 2040." "I'd like to talk to you today a little bit about the update for our comprehensive plan," Swetz said, and summarized completed outreach, demographic analysis and the next steps for public review.
Swetz told the council the comprehensive plan is "designed to promote the planned and orderly development of land," and noted that the Code of Virginia requires every…
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