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Monona launches 12‑month comprehensive plan update; consultants outline corridor‑focused process
Summary
Consultants Vandewell and Associates told a joint meeting of Monona’s City Council and Planning Commission on Jan. 12 that the municipal comprehensive plan update will follow a roughly 12‑month schedule, integrate Broadway and Monona Drive corridor studies, and emphasize public engagement through in‑person workshops, stakeholder listening sessions and mirrored online surveys.
Ben Rohrer, the project manager for Vandewell and Associates, told a joint meeting of the City of Monona City Council and Planning Commission on Jan. 12 that consultants and city staff will complete a draft comprehensive plan and work toward formal adoption in roughly 12 months. "Right around, this, you know, late December of, this year, we will be at the adoption process," Rohrer said as he described a four‑stage schedule of data collection, draft development, refinement with an ad hoc committee and final adoption.
The update responds to Wisconsin’s Smart Growth requirement for a 20‑year comprehensive plan and will include the plan’s nine required elements, Rohrer said. Vandewell plans to integrate two corridor studies—Broadway and Monona Drive—into the comp plan so…
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