Staff outlines targeted comprehensive-plan updates, flags $100k–$200k cost for full rewrite

Dec 15, 2025

Planning staff told the Surry County Planning Commission the packet contains targeted updates to the 2020 plan and recommended limited revisions now; a full, holistic update would likely require budgeting an estimated $100,000–$200,000 and could occur within five years.

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Mister Wade, the planning director who led the presentation, told the commission the materials in their packet were intended as targeted updates—not a full rewrite—and focused primarily on future land-use maps and dated data that in some cases go back to 2017.

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