Comprehensive Planning

Lee County began to develop our first comprehensive plan, called The Lee Plan, over 25 years ago. This has been updated over the years—usually updated to accommodate interests and needs of those in one part or other of the county. In light of new realities, Lee County will benefit from shifting the overall paradigm on which the Lee Plan's land use and transportation goals and policies have been based.

 

Reconnecting Lee County has structured each target topic section using categories to help in your search. The materials below are intended as a resource to help you consider improvements to our comprehensive planning for land use and transportation. Especially take a look at what has been done in some other places across the U.S.A. and tell us what you think might work here.

 

Please contact us to share your ideas and information.

 

 

As we come across articles and publications that are relevant to our mission, we will share them under appropriate sections of the website.

 

Ellen Dunham-Jones, author of "Retrofitting Suburbia," urges planners and developers to look for patches of 'underperforming asphalt' to accommodate future growth in a sustainable way.  Although the ground under dead malls and big-box parking lots is already developed, these areas have vast untapped potential for retrofitting America's suburbs.  Click here to read the article.