The Dane County Comprehensive Plan is available for download in Adobe Acrobat format. Listed below are available downloads. You may download the plan in sections or as a whole.

Generalized DCCP Process

• Step 1: Pre-planning
  • Develop Planning Process
  • Develop Public Participation Plan
  • Develop Planning Structure and Procedures
• Step 2: Generate Baseline Data and Planning Goals
  • Review and analyze information, goals and objectives generated through previous planning efforts
  • Identify information gaps
  • Collect new information to address gaps
  • Re-analyze and re-validate complete information
  • Generate planning goals and objectives based upon public input and complete information
  • Evaluate and revise planning goals and objectives
• Step 3: Develop Plan Alternatives
  • Generate first draft of plan alternatives
  • Evaluate first draft of plan alternatives
  • Revise and re-generate second round of plan alternatives
  • Select plan alternatives
• Step 4: Plan Review, Adoption and Implementation
  • Generate first draft of comprehensive plan
  • Review draft of plan
  • Make revisions to draft and generate final comprehensive plan
  • Adopt comprehensive plan
• Step 5: Evaluate Plan and Process
  • Evaluate planning process
  • Evaluate public participation plan process
  • Generate recommendations for planning and public participation processes
  • Incorporate recommendations into planning and public participation processes for use in future plan revision/updates
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DCCP Organizational Structure (text, graphics & links)