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Assembly debates funding and value of community comprehensive plans as planning staff capacity dwindles
Summary
Planning staff said many community comprehensive plans are aging and a modest project account will lapse in June; assembly members split between preserving community planning funding and cutting or prioritizing updates given limited staff and budget constraints.
Alex Strahan, the borough planning director, presented an inventory of community comprehensive plans and told the joint meeting that many plans are old and that the planning office will lack earmarked funds after a roughly $100,000 project account lapses in June. He said the office currently lacks capacity—only two long-range planners remain—and that doing comprehensive-plan updates at scale would require sustained staffing.
"We have around $100,000 in a project…
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