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What is a Community Plan?

The community plan is a powerful tool for addressing local issues, such as land uses, natural landscape, community character, and public facilities – the elements that make each community unique. The process of developing a plan is an opportunity for the community to tailor new goals and policies to meet the needs of the community today and for the near future.

What will it do for your community?

·        Provides guidance for County decisions within the community
·        Needs to be consistent with the overall framework of the general plan
·        Community plans establish how land will be used by setting forth broad guidelines for the extent and nature of growth
·        Community Plans are land use policy documents.
·        Applies to a specific, often unique, geographic area within a county.
·        Establishes (or protects) the density, form and character of a community.

What won't it do for your community?

As the general plan is the "constitution" for land use and development in a county, a community plan is the “blueprint” for a specific community. 

A Community Plan for an existing community such as Forest Ranch can only be successful if it shaped and formed by the citizens who it serves.  Generally a Community Plan will not be successful if it does not have broad support for its adoption.  The adopted Community Plan is not a static document but can be amended by the Board of Supervisors to meet the area’s changing needs into the future.