Comprehensive Plan Committee

COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SURVEY RESULTS:

What is a comprehensive plan?

A comprehensive plan requires community visioning and strategies for future success. Imagining how your community could be at its very best 10-20 years out and creating a viable plan to reach those goals is critical to well run municipalities and the entire region. It’s about understanding the forces of change and working with them to achieve a better future. The most critical ingredient to forging a strong comprehensive plan is articulating a compelling vision that is achievable for the future, which requires taking a hard look at current policies and future trends, and a commitment to effective approaches likely to result in positive, measurable outcomes consistent with the community’s overall goals.

Comprehensive plans are also the legal underpinning of zoning ordinances—intended to assure that the power of zoning is not used arbitrarily, unfairly, or without attention to identified and documented needs after considering current data and conditions. State of Maine requirements for any approved comprehensive plan are described in the Maine Growth Management Act Title 30-A.

Commonly addressed issues in comprehensive plans include:

• growth, both commercial and residential
• education and schools
• open space issues
• the environment
• economic development, economic diversification
• housing affordability
• elderly issues and services
• changing demographics
• recreational opportunities
• community image
• traffic, congestion
• tourism
• regional concerns

What type of committee is this?

On April 28, 2022, the Hermon Town Council created an “Ad Hoc” committee as an advisory board to review the current 2010 Comprehensive Plan, and to provide guidance and recommendations regarding potential updates to the Town Council for consideration.

Who is on the committee?

The committee includes two members of the Town Council, one member of the School Committee, the Economic Development Director, the Town’s Assessor, the Code Enforcement Officer and seven members of the public. Committee members include: John Snyer, Ron Murphy, Stephanie Oiler, Scott Perkins, Josh Berry, Jessefa Murphy, Ed Marsh, Josh Pelletier, Kristan Rancourt, Gregory Newell, Russ Maynard, Deborah Langille and Richard Guthrie.

How do residents contribute ideas?

As part of the process of planning, a public participation program will be offered to residents including wide and varied ways to forward ideas for consideration. Before final acceptance, a public hearing will be advertised by the Town Council.

Comprehensive Plan Meetings 2023/2024

Date	Agenda	Video
June 27th, 2023	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 6-27-2023	Video
July 25th, 2023	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 7-25-2023	Video
August 29th, 2023	The Comprehensive Plan Meeting for August 29th, 2023 has been CANCELLED. Next scheduled meeting: September 26th, 2023
September 26th, 2023	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 9-26-2023	Video
November 1st, 2023	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 11-1-2023	Video

Comprehensive Plan Meeting Schedule- 2022/2023

Comprehensive Plan Meetings 2022/2023

Date	Agenda	Video
May 31st, 2022	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 5-31-2022	Video
June 28th, 2022	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 6-28-2022	Video
July 26th, 2022	The Comprehensive Plan Meeting for July 26, 2022 has been CANCELLED. Next scheduled meeting: September 27, 2022.
September 27th, 2022	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 9-27-2022
October 25th, 2022	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 10-25-2022	Video
November 29th, 2022	The Comprehensive Plan Meeting for November 29, 2022 has been CANCELLED. Next scheduled meeting: December 27, 2022.
December 27th, 2022	The Comprehensive Plan Meeting for December 27th, 2022 has been CANCELLED. Next scheduled meeting:
January 31st, 2023	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 1-31-2023
Febuary 28th, 2023	The Comprehensive Plan Meeting for February 28, 2023 has been resceduled due to weather. Next scheduled meeting: March 7, 2023.
March 7th, 2023	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 3-7-23	Video
April 25th, 2023	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 4-25-2023	Video
May 30th, 2023	Comprehensive Plan Committee AGENDA 5-30-2023	Video