Shawnee County commissioners last October asked the Shawnee County Planning Commission to address issues regarding a proposed 2037 Shawnee County Comprehensive Plan.
On Monday, they’ll hear public comments and discuss the revised version of that land use plan for the county’s unincorporated areas. They’ll talk about a document that resulted from the county’s initiation in 2016 of the process of preparing a long-range comprehensive land use plan, which would guide decision-making about the physical development of its unincorporated areas.
The attempts to guide orderly growth that balances environmental values and reasonable development demand over the next 20 years. It was crafted for the county by consultants from Omaha, Neb.-based RDg Planning and Design.
The Shawnee County Planning Commission last August voted to recommend county commissioners adopt the plan. But commissioners voted 3-0 last October to send the proposal back to the planning commission along with an eight-page list of issues they hoped to see addressed.
(Read more: Local – The Topeka Capital-Journal)