Comprehensive Plan for Oelwein Iowa and its One-Mile Planning Area in Fayette County Prepared for Oelwein Planning and Zoning Commission, 1968

(1968) Comprehensive Plan for Oelwein Iowa and its One-Mile Planning Area in Fayette County Prepared for Oelwein Planning and Zoning Commission, 1968. Iowa Economic Development Authority

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Abstract

This planning program for Oelwein results from a contract between the city, the federal government, and the consultant. The program involved the preparation of base maps, a land-use plan, a circulation plan, a community-facility plan, a capital improvements program, zoning ordinance and official map, and a subdivision ordinance. In addition, the city's planning consultant has regularly met with the Planning Commission and City Council to review progress The Comprehensive Plan develops an insight into a community's immediate and future needs through a complete program of data gathering and analysis that provides the basis for improvement. This process is not limited to negative evaluation, but also records assets to be used in achieving long-range community goals. Thus, planning is a method of accomplishing things on a communitywide level through an informed citizenry and its elected officials and relies on strong support from citizens and officials. The Oelwein Comprehensive Plan is defined as a statement of policy which sets forth broad physical development goals of the city. It should be thought of as a guide to future growth and improvement. The Plan has as its objectives the present and future welfare of the city, in terms of public health, safety, aesthetics, and expenditure of public funds.