We need a plan from which to deviate - how did comprehensive plans get started in the US? How is the comprehensive plan going in Bridgton? What are the requirements? I list out my favorite plans that I think made their mark on how we do comprehensive plans today and I talk about Bridgton's Comprehensive Plan. The fun slides at the end are backdrops to talk about what issues Bridgton Comprehensive Plan committee are facing in finalizing their policy recommendations.

1. Anne Krieg, AICP
Bridgton Director of
Planning, Economic &
Community
Development

2. Comprehensive Planning
We need a plan from which to deviate

3. Golden Gate Park
• Olmsted was there first
• Daniel Burnham weighed in
• William Hammond Hall surveyor completed

4. Charles Burnham Chicago Plan
The Plan focused on six major physical elements:
1. improving the lakefront
2. developing a highway system
3. improving the freight and passenger railway
systems
4. acquisition of an outer park system
5. arranging systematic streets; and
6. creation of a civic center of cultural institutions
and government.

5. Regional Plan of NY
You may draw all
the lines you
please between
counties and
states, a city is a
growth responding
to forces not at all
political (Elihu
Root, Committee
member)

6. Cincinnati Plan
No plan on
paper is
fully
effective
until it
becomes a
Citizens’
Plan.

7. Tennessee
Valley
Authority
It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance
comprehending in one great project many states directly
concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers

9. Stanford
Industrial
Park
…a serious young engineer had to
go back east to put spit and polish
on his education. (Frederick Terman)

11. Reston Virginia

13. Oregon Statewide Land Use Law
sagebrush subdivisions, coastal
condomania, and the ravenous
rampages of suburbia
(Governor Tom McCall)

14. Comprehensive
Planning in Maine
• 1987
• State agency review
• State goals
• Regional review

15. Requirements• Inventory & Analysis
• Policy Development
Implementation
Strategy
Regional
Coordination

16. Inventory
• Economic & demographics
• Water resources
• Critical natural resources
• Forestry & agriculture
• Recreation & parks
• Transportation
• Housing
• Historical resources
• Land use
• Capital facilities & town services

17. Policy Development
• Growth areas
• Discourage incompatible development
• Transitional areas
• Capital Investment Plan
• Protection of water bodies, natural resources and forestry & agriculture
• Affordable housing
• Outdoor recreation

18. Bridgton’s Plan
• Fall 2014 schedule
• Public Process
• History of Committee