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Implementation Goals Goal 1: Promote consistent integration of the comprehensive plan policies and recommendations with the ordinances and implementation tools that affect the Town. Goal 2: Balance appropriate land use regulations and individual property rights with community interests and goals. 1.4 Comprehensive Plan Development Process and Public Participation The Wisconsin Comprehensive Planning legislation specifies that the governing body for a unit of government must prepare and adopt written procedures to foster public participation in the comprehensive planning process. This includes open discussion, communication programs, information services, and public meetings for which advance notice has been provided, in every stage of the preparation of a comprehensive plan. Public participation includes wide distribution of proposed drafts,plan alternatives, and proposed amendments of the comprehensive plan. Public participation includes opportunities for members of the public to send written comments on the plan to the applicable governing body, and a process for the governing body to respond. The Town of Anderson has adopted a Public Participation and Education Plan in order to comply with the requirements of Section 66.1001(4)(a) of the Wisconsin Statutes. The Town's adopted Public Participation and Education Plan is found in Appendix A. The Burnett County comprehensive planning process was designed to encourage extensive grassroots, citizen-based input. Not only were public outreach tools and events utilized,but citizens were directly involved in writing their own local comprehensive plans, as well as the county comprehensive plan. Please refer to Sections 1.3 through 1.5 of the Burnett County Inventory and Trends Report for further details on the plan development and public participation processes. In addition to the public participation process described in the Burnett County Inventory and Trends Report, the process of adopting the Town of Anderson Year 2030 Comprehensive Plan included several public participation activities. These include Anderson public informational meetings, Planning Committee, Plan Commission, and Town Board action, a public hearing, and the distribution of recommended and final plan documents. Public Meetings In accordance with the County planning process, Anderson used Plan Commission meetings, cluster meetings, and public informational meetings as part of the planning process. Anderson participated in several integrated cluster meetings at the county level, and held numerous local plan commission meetings as part plan development. Each participating community worked through a `base package' process of meetings and local work sessions as facilitated by Foth and Burnett County. The cluster planning process provided the framework to enable each community to work through the planning process and hit key plan development benchmarks while allowing enough schedule flexibility to facilitate local, issue-specific meetings. Foth Infrastructure&Environment,LLC•1-6 Town of Anderson Year 2030 Comprehensive Plan June 2010