Innsbrook’s Planning and Zoning Commission, with the help of Village Planner Todd Streiler, has been hard at work on a new comprehensive plan for the village’s future development.
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Innsbrook’s Planning and Zoning Commission, with the help of Village Planner Todd Streiler, has been hard at work on a new comprehensive plan for the village’s future development.
Months later, those plans are finally coming to fruition as P&Z Chairman Allen Huddleston and Streiler said the comprehensive plan was nearing completion at the Jan. 14 board of trustees meeting.
Comprehensive plans are compiled by municipalities in conjunction with a zoning code enforcing them, to regulate and guide future development establishing what kind of businesses, homes and other additions can be built where.
Usually these plans are assembled to cover a period of roughly 10 years, and the current plan has become outdated.
“We’re excited about where the village is headed,” said Huddleston. “For years and years, it was just this little infancy stage, and now it’s beginning to take shape.”
Streiler said that he and the P&Z board had been working on what he called the “existing conditions” for the plan and making comparisons to nearby communities as well as communities with similar demographics to ascertain where their focuses should be.
“Right now we’ve got what’s called the existing conditions, which is chapter one. It kind of takes a 360 degree view of the village and looks at all kinds of different demographic analyses and compares that against the county, state and nation,” said Streiler.
The next step is citizen input, which Streiler said was vital to creating a plan that effectively guides incoming development in a manner that ensures the community Innsbrook becomes is somewhere that its citizens want to live.
“It’s going to be critical, also, to get input from village residents of what they want and expect,” said Huddleston.
Streiler said he and the commission had been working on developing a survey where citizens could provide ideas on what they want to see in the future development of the village, which could be used as a guide at future planning meetings.
He said the survey has already ballooned to over 30 questions about urban design and the direction of growth citizens want to see in their community.
“The idea is to get a really nice representation of the residents, both full-time and part-time, so that they can provide feedback on their wishes and worries about the future of the village,” said Streiler.
Trustee Donna West raised some concerns about the survey and wanted to know how it would be distributed so that all Innsbrook residents, including those living outside the boundaries of the resort, would have their voices heard.
Streiler said they were planning a “triage” of distribution methods, between mailing and emailing the survey to residents and providing a link to the online version on the village website.
Huddleston also stressed that all residents would be provided the opportunity to comment.
“Donna I know you’re concerned, as I am, people outside the gate or outside of the resort, they should be able to have input, and we will guarantee that,” said Huddleston.
The survey will be the next step in the comprehensive plan process that will culminate with the completion of the plan and the establishment of a zoning code in Innsbrook that will guide and regulate future development.
Huddleston said they hoped to distribute the survey through all available channels by the end of the month.