South Portland 2040 Comprehensive Plan
April - June 2023
Phase I SoPo Yesterday & Today
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The Comp Plan update starts with compiling inventories and projected needs through 2040 of the plan elements. This includes reviewing all relevant local and regional plans and studies, collecting data to further develop and refine the analysis, and consulting with key staff, local officials, and other members of the community to establish a baseline understanding of the community. Focus group discussions and interviews also help to inform the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Constraints (SWOC) analysis.
In this phase, the team will compile the inventories and needs projections for each element into a summary report, including inventories with maps illustrating the current conditions of the built and natural environment and resident demographics.
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Inventory Chapters (coming soon)
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Watch recordings of past CPC meetings via SPC-TV!
June 2023 - January 2024
Phase II SoPo Tomorrow
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A plan’s vision, when based on a clear understanding of community values, hopes, and dreams, is the heart of a Comprehensive Plan. The vision statement then becomes the driving force behind the plan.
A plan’s goals describe conditions to aim for to achieve the community vision over time. Throughout Phase II, the project team will guide the community to think ambitiously about what the ideal future vision and goals for the community could be. What conditions have changed in the recent decades? What has been accomplished? Have the community’s priorities changed or shifted in any ways? This phase focuses on developing a community vision and setting associated goals.
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Vision and Goals
Vision and Goals Final Draft (March 2024)
Community feedback summary (November 2023)
Aggregated Community Engagement Summary (ACES) Report and ACES Appendix (August 2023)
Waterfront and Cash Corner Workshop (October 2023)
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Watch recordings of past CPC meetings via SPC-TV!
January - September 2024
Phase III Achieving Tomorrow
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In Phase III, the community, City partners, City staff, and the Committee will think critically about how best to achieve the future conditions identified in the vision statement and goals, including identifying best practices.
Strategies are ways that the City will work to achieve the goals. They are actionable and will involve funding, regulations, programs, and/or use of other City resources, such as staff or volunteer time. Community planning efforts have meaning only if they are implemented. It is vital to develop a strategic, realistic, and fiscally responsible planning document with an implementation plan that is thoroughly vetted by local policymakers. -
Key Policy Questions
Policy Alternatives ballot and informational packet (June 2024)
Policy Alternatives engagement summary memo and full results (August 2024)
Community Design Charettes
Front Street / Eastern Waterfront engagement results (exp. August 2024)
Cash Corner / Crosstown Connector engagement results (exp. August 2024)
Waterfront Resilience
Waterfront Vulnerability Assessment (May 2024)
Waterfront Resilience survey (open through August 31st, 2024)
Waterfront Resilience engagement results (exp. September 2024)
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Watch recordings of past CPC meetings via SPC-TV!
September 2024 - March 2025
Phase IV Finalization & Certification
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This phase focuses on refining strategies and the implementation program, as well as finalization and adoption of the complete South Portland Comp Plan. The plan will include a concise and graphic public-facing document that will outline the community’s vision, priority goals and strategies, finalized future land use plan and map, summary of participation, and an associated detailed and well-organized Action Plan under separate cover. Project deliverables will include comprehensive documents, including a section for goals and strategies, narrative sections for each of the Comp Plan elements, and an Action Plan.
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Coming soon!
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Coming soon!
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Watch recordings of CPC meetings once they've happened via SPC-TV!
Read the draft Vision and Goals that have been adopted for the Comprehensive Plan update.
These statements were adopted by the Comprehensive Plan Committee on January 31, 2024. The Vision and Goals will drive all policy actions that will be developed with the community through Phase III of the planning process in 2024 and 2025.
Note: The Vision and Goals remain in “draft” form until they are adopted by the City Council when the draft Plan is presented. This allows the Vision and Goals to be responsive to continuing community discussion on the plan and specific actions.
