Norwood CPC adopts shared spreadsheet to rate comprehensive-plan strategies

The Town of Norwood Community Preservation Committee on Wednesday agreed to use a shared spreadsheet to provide the committee's formal feedback on highlighted strategy items from the draft Comprehensive Plan.

Committee members said Kristen and the comprehensive-plan committee provided 179 strategy ideas in total, about 60–66 of which the plan authors highlighted as relevant to the CPC's purview. To collect consistent feedback, members endorsed a rating spreadsheet that Julie will circulate and aggregate.

The decision matters because CPC review will be sent back to the comprehensive-plan committee as part of the plan's public review cycle. Committee members said that focused, structured feedback will help the planning process and make it easier for CPC to flag items that should be included in the plan or that would better fit another board's jurisdiction.

John Hall, a CPC member, said the comprehensive-plan materials were thorough but difficult to treat as a single list for…