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SHAPING OUR FUTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The East Central Wisconsin Regional Comprehensive Plan 2030
Stakeholder Letter
SHAPING OUR FUTURE IN THE 21st CENTURY
The East Central Wisconsin Regional Comprehensive Plan 2030
I am letting you know that the East Central Wisconsin Regional
Planning Commission (ECWRPC), with your participation, is about to start
the process of determining what sort of region we all want to live in,
in terms of our community, our economy, and our environment. Once we
establish a regional vision, I hope that we will be able to work
together toward developing a strategy that will enable us to meet that
vision. My aim is to produce a strategic framework plan by 2005, that
will help guide everyday decision-making within the region, as well as
meet the requirements of the Smart Growth legislation, signed into law
in 1999.
I am offering you the opportunity to become involved in the
regional planning process. I am trying to ensure that government,
interest groups, and citizens are all involved in deciding how to deal
effectively with growth management issues that will face this region in
the future. For example, in our 10-county area in the past 20 years,
83,000 new jobs have been created. An area larger than the entire area
of Winnebago County has been taken out of agricultural production. Some
60,000 new homes have been built, that is 8 new homes everyday. As of
1997, the price of many of these homes was out of reach of one-third of
workers in the region who earn poverty level wages.
You have been identified as being in a position to make a
positive contribution to the regional planning process either as an
individual or as a representative of an organization.
East Central is making available public participation procedures
that will provide several ways for you to be involved in, and contribute
to, the planning process: keeping up-to-date through our newsletter and
web-site; sending us written comments by mail or email; participating in
focus groups; becoming a member of the citizens panel; attending public
information meetings; or participating on a technical advisory
committee.
The cost of not participating in the planning process is that
someone else will make the decisions about:
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how our regional community, economy and environment will
change and develop;
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the level of public services to be provided and the cost
to us all as taxpayers; and
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the extent of restrictions on the use of our property.
I am looking forward to working with you on Shaping our Future.
Sincerely,
Harlan Kiesow
Executive Director
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