The Town of Fayette has announced the first Public Forum as part of the Fayette FORWARD 2045 Comprehensive Plan process. The Comprehensive Plan will serve as a decision-making framework and tool to accelerate the community’s progress toward a shared vision and set of planning principles.
A comprehensive plan is both a process and guiding document that evaluates aspects of a community’s operations and market conditions to create a roadmap toward achieving a vision for the community’s future. The Fayette FORWARD 2045 plan seeks to focus on and reinforce the following five policy areas:
- Infrastructure (e.g. water, sewer, broadband)
- Hamlet Revitalization
- Economic Vitality
- Environmental Protection and Sustainability
- Community Connectivity
A steering committee, composed of residents, business owners, and cultural stakeholders, is guiding the planning process. The steering committee will host a public forum on June 21 at the Fayette Fire Department, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The session will be facilitated in a drop-in format. Residents and community stakeholders are encouraged to stop in and provide feedback on plan elements such as the community’s vision statements, governing principles, and policy areas, as well as any other input that may enhance the planning process.
Supervisor Trout states that the steering committee seeks to “plan our future in a fully participatory way” and that the Fayette FORWARD 2045 plan aims to “strike a balance between preserving our rural way of life while creatively leveraging areas of growth and opportunity.”
The planning process is set to conclude in the fall, with an initial draft delivered to the Town Board by the end of 2023. For more information on plan activities, or to provide additional input on plan elements, visit the Town website at www.townoffayetteny.org.
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