Citizens Shaping Oconee County Comprehensive Plan Update Told Their Work Is 60 Percent Complete

Work on the 2018 update for the Oconee County Comprehensive Plan is about 60 percent complete, Justin Crighton, a planner with the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission, told members of the citizen committee involved in the update at its meeting on Tuesday night.

Crighton, who is leading the work on the update, said he has been drafting two key parts of the final document, one dealing with community needs and opportunities and the other with visions, goals and policies.

These two documents “are in a pretty final draft stage and almost ready for review,” Crighton said, and he said he plans to send those out to the citizen Stakeholders Committee before it meets again in the week of Oct. 9.

The sections on land use and on parks, recreation and greenspace are “still to be finalized,” Crighton said, and the subcommittees working on those sections need to meet again and review drafts he has created.

Crighton said he would need to talk to leaders of the county and of the county’s four cities before drafting the community work program element of the report.

The public will get a chance to review the documents at meetings in December and January, according to the schedule Crighton presented, and the local governments will approve the document in March or April of next year.

For more on the story, including a video of the meeting of the Stakeholders Committee, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Citizens Meeting Sept. 19, 2017.