The comprehensive plan will serve as a tool to help guide the community toward its desired outcomes. Once approved, the Comprehensive Plan will help guide both day-to-day decision-making, short-term actions, and longer-term initiatives and strategies to achieve the community’s vision. The comprehensive plan used different forms of public engagement and reflects the ideas, values, and desires of the community, aligning these with a range of plans, policies, and initiatives in place or underway in both Middletown and the wider region. The City of Middletown is committed to hands-on economic development policies that promote the city’s locational benefits, amenities, and resources along with business-friendly policies such as creating a one-stop-shop in order to streamline the development approval process. It is important that as Middletown continues to evolve and develop that there is a focus on the health and safety of our community. Middletown prides itself on having a diverse community and rich history. The plan will provide a road map for enhancing the cultural and economic vitality of our community through strong public-private partnerships and community leadership. The Comprehensive Plan is an aspirational guidebook that includes input from the steering committee, City staff, Planning Commission, and City Council and Middletown’s citizens and stakeholders. *a mapping error on the Final Draft 11.23.21 was discovered and updated on 12.7.21. The Planning Commission’s recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council for final review and decision.
The Planning Commission will review the Comprehensive Plan again at their regular meeting on Wednesday, February 9, 2022.
At the regular Planning Commission meeting held on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, the Commission voted to table the Comprehensive Plan for 2 months pending additional public outreach. We thank everyone who submitted feedback for the Comprehensive Plan Draft! The Final Draft of the Comprehensive Plan includes necessary changes that were made based on the comments received and additional review by City staff.ġ.