Center for Land Use Education

The Land Use Tracker
Volume 2, Issue 4
Spring 2003

IN THIS ISSUE:

	2003 Comprehensive Planning Grant Awards Program
	Smart Growth: A Solution to Sprawl?
	Guides to the Planning Elements
	CLUE Launches New Comprehensive Planning Education Project
	A recent court opinion about expansion of nonconforming uses�
	Calendar of Events
	Article Submissions
	Our Staff
	what's new at the center
	Contact Us by E-mail
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CLUE Launches New Comprehensive Planning Education Project

In the previous issue of the Land Use Tracker, you were introduced to three new staff members at the Center for Land Use Education: Douglas Miskowiak, Chin-Chun Tang and Rebecca Vander Kelen. Thanks to a $2 million dollar grant from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a three-year project has been initiated to look at comprehensive planning efforts throughout the state.

The goals of the project are two-fold: to work directly with communities undergoing the comprehensive planning process, and to produce educational and technical assistance materials designed to assist other community planning processes throughout the state. The long-term goal of the project is to disseminate lessons learned from Wisconsin planning experiences on a national and international scale.

To kick off the project, CLUE has initiated partnerships with several communities throughout the state, including: Ashland, Langlade, Waupaca and Washburn Counties. Shawano County may become a partner county in the future. As always, CLUE will also continue to monitor changing land use, planning and zoning issues throughout the state, and serve as a valuable resource for general assistance related to these topics.

To learn more about the latest developments related to comprehensive planning education in Wisconsin, a new website dedicated to this project will be launched within the CLUE website. This site will contain a description of our project and will provide public access to educational and technical assistance materials as they are developed.

Related to this project, a series of articles devoted to comprehensive planning will also begin to appear within the Tracker. The first of these articles, written by Vander Kelen, will help a community determine its readiness for planning and outline the steps necessary to begin a planning process. Future articles in the series will lead you through the stages of a typical planning process, and will conclude with issues devoted to plan implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Articles of special interest, such as public participation, digital planning support systems, and techniques of plan writing will also appear.