{"id":178,"date":"2017-02-20T13:25:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:00:08","slug":"comprehensive-county-plans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/comprehensive-plans\/comprehensive-county-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartholomew County Comprehensive Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38\" src=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/02\/county2.jpg\" alt=\"county2\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/02\/county2-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/02\/county2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/02\/county2.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>The current Bartholomew County Comprehensive Plan includes the three basic components:\u00a0 the Goals and Polices Element (adopted in 1999), the Land Use Plan Element (adopted in 2003), and the Thoroughfare Plan (adopted in 1994). It also includes the Northern Gateway Plan Element, a detailed policy statement for the area around the US 31 \/ I-65 interchange. \u00a0The Bartholomew County Comprehensive Plan is adopted by the Board of County Commissioners.<\/p>\n<p><em>All highlighted links are PDF documents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Bartholomew County Comprehensive Plan includes the following\u00a04 elements:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/f0hv1mzpnqa91b2\/Goals%20and%20Policies%20Adopted%20Document.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goals and Policies Element<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/k709o78s82qqrkt\/Land%20Use%20Plan%20Element%20%28Updated%204.3.2023%29.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Land Use Plan Element<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/qlx5qh6rigzyj79\/Thoroughfare%20Plan%2024x36%20%28Updated%204.3.2023%29.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thoroughfare Plan Element<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/gs3lw7idc20bf9f\/Digital%20Draft%20%28High%20Res%29.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Gateway Plan Element<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Comprehensive Plans<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Comprehensive Plan is a long-term statement of a community\u2019s vision for its future.\u00a0 The plan provides goals, policies, and other guidance for future land use and development.\u00a0 The Planning Department is the comprehensive plan record keeper and advocate for both the City of Columbus and Bartholomew County.\u00a0 While the Planning Department serves as the staff for both City and County, each jurisdiction has its own separate comprehensive plan.\u00a0 These plans were developed separately over time and involved extensive research and public input.\u00a0 The plans were adopted by the Columbus City Council and Bartholomew County Board of\u00a0Commissioners, respectively.\u00a0 The comprehensive plan is a separate document from\u00a0the zoning and subdivision control ordinances.\u00a0 The comprehensive plan is a policy guide that is intended to influence (but not mandate) community land use and development decisions.\u00a0 The zoning and subdivision control ordinances are also adopted separately by both the city and the county.\u00a0 These documents are laws regulating new development and are based, in part, on the guidance of the comprehensive plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 18:24:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}