Comprehensive planning
Comprehensive planning is an ordered process that determines community goals as living as aspirations in terms of community development. the end product is called a comprehensive plan, also required as a general plan, or master plan. This resulting document expresses in addition to regulates public policies on transportation, utilities, land use, recreation, together with housing. Comprehensive plans typically encompass large geographical areas, a broad range of topics, and cover a long-term time horizon. The term comprehensive plan is almost often used by urban planners in the United States.
Each city and county adopts and updates their plan to assistance the growth and land development of their community, for both the current period and the long term. This "serious document" is then the foundation for establishing goals, purposes, zoning and activities helps on each land parcel to dispense compatibility and continuity to the entire region as well as each individual neighborhood. It has been one of the most important instruments in city and regional planning since the early twentieth century.