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Show County Master Plan discussed at meeting ideas for"!11 Countv master zoning plan Were j uccessful community planning Count 7m at the regular Uintah Feb is nmng Commission meeting ixPlainpHPSentation was snown wnicn sins am knefits and necessity of w ,?er p,an t0 maintain orderly 'lard MCOUnty- City officials from if the meet Ples attended this Prtion av'tation ater rece'vin8 a special The Cities ant presentatin showed how t0ns were originally layed out, and how early planned communities worked much better than cities and towns that were merely thrown together out of necessity. These were usually mining min-ing communities. The presentation offerred a six step plan to successful community planning. Those six steps are: (1) Goals, which outline the hopes and expectations of a community. (2) Data, to take into consideration con-sideration such things as population, resources, and services. (3) Policies, setting set-ting rules and a course of action. (4) Master Plan, which is the community blueprint. (5) Implementation, which comes in the form of ordinances, regulations regula-tions and programs. (6) Evaluation, to ask questions such as what's good? bad? right? wrong? A properly implemented plan, it was suggested, will assure effective and controlled con-trolled growth within the county. The presentation was made in hopes of putting put-ting a stop to uncontrolled growth along Hiway 40 East through Naples, and in hopes of developing areas in locations other than along the access of Highway 40. A discussion ensued after the slide presentation. "The county has a master plan," said Dave Haslem, planning committee com-mittee member, "but none of the planning plann-ing commissions have used a damn thing." He continued to say that when someone so-meone brings a rezoning proposal before the commissions, they have a 95 percent chance of getting it changed. In agreement, Bob Nicholson, Vernal City and Uintah County Planner said, "A master plan is only as good as it is used." |