Excellent article on Maurice Cox, city planner, and his vision for Detroit's future

[douglasm]

I would like to see a copy of Detroit's Comprehensive Plan, if one is required in Michigan. Here in Washington, cities are required to file one every 5 to 7 years. Basically, what a Comp Plan does is map out growth and development plans and goals for the city in the long term, and is subject to revision as conditions dictate. It is the job of the city planner, with input from council [[among others) to come up with this plan.

I don't know if this is a Comp Plan as presented, or a bunch of planning ideas [[the article doesn't say), but keep in mind that a Comp Plan is NOT cast in stone, but an idea factory of hat you'd like your city to look like 10 years down the road.

[ABetterDetroit]

I would like to see a copy of Detroit's Comprehensive Plan, if one is required in Michigan. Here in Washington, cities are required to file one every 5 to 7 years. Basically, what a Comp Plan does is map out growth and development plans and goals for the city in the long term, and is subject to revision as conditions dictate. It is the job of the city planner, with input from council [[among others) to come up with this plan.

I don't know if this is a Comp Plan as presented, or a bunch of planning ideas [[the article doesn't say), but keep in mind that a Comp Plan is NOT cast in stone, but an idea factory of hat you'd like your city to look like 10 years down the road.

If I may ask, how big of a roll does MRSC play in the Comp Plans?

http://mrsc.org/Home/Explore-Topics.aspx

[douglasm]

If I may ask, how big of a roll does MRSC play in the Comp Plans?

http://mrsc.org/Home/Explore-Topics.aspx

Not a great deal, or a lot depending on your resources. The nice thing about the MRSC is it's wealth of information. The advantage of the MRSC is that they've done a lot of the research into various topics for you, saving much valuable staff time in researching a topic.

Keep in mind though, they are only one tool available to a City Planner or Council. They carry no legal weight, but act like a large Encyclopedia Birtanica [[sp.?) for city and county governments.