Working
Together for Salisbury’s Future
Salisbury
Master Plan
WHAT
IS A MASTER PLAN?
- Long-range guide for future
development
- Develops goals &
policies
- Reflects a vision of what
residents would like their town to be in the future, developed through surveys,
interview, inventories and public participation/visioning sessions
- Includes an implementation
schedule
- Includes a capital
improvement plan to coordinate large-scale expenditures with the goals
- An Action document, not an
end of process document never to be looked at
- A guide to decision making,
although it is NOT a zoning by-law, a subdivision regulation, or a capital
improvement plans, but should be used to prepare said documents
WHAT IS
INCLUDED IN A MASTER PLAN?
According
to Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 41, Section 81D, a Master Plan shall
include the following elements:
o Goals
o Land Use Element
o Housing Element
o Economic Development
o Natural & Cultural Resources
Element (Includes Historic Resources, Environmental Protection)
o Open Space & Recreation
Element
o Services & Facilities Element
o Circulation Element
(Transportation)
o Implementation Element (Capital
Improvements Programs, Costs, revenues associated with capital improvements, changes to regulations)
o A Master Plan includes text,
maps, illustrations and other forms of communication