Betsey Buckheit's blog

Editor's note: We thank Betsey Buckheit for her generous offer to follow the city's comprehensive planning process. This is the first of many reports she plans to file on this topic.

Were you at last week's big public forum about revising the Comprehensive Plan at the Armory? 

If so, you learned a bit about how Northfield has grown over the last decade and had a chance to give some input on the strongest and weakest aspects of the city. 

If not, it's not too late to get interested and involved in putting your fingerprints on Northfield's blueprints.  Get in or stay in the process by attending the follow up public meeting in May now being planned.

Meanwhile, be informed.  I'll be reporting on the Comprehensive Plan update and, more importantly, land development regulation rewrite for northfield.org.  My qualifications?  I chaired the Northfield Planning Commission from 2001-2005 (so I participated in the drafting and adoption of the 2001 Comp Plan), I blogged extensively about the Comp Plan on northfield.org in 2004-2005, and I still care that Northfield does a good job validating the Plan and, especially, updating its land use regulations to put the Plan into action.