City View District Plan Element<\/a><\/p>\nAbout Comprehensive Plans
\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":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 17:44:15","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\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The City of Columbus Comprehensive Plan currently includes 9 separate elements adopted over time beginning in 1999 with the Goals and Policies Element. These Goals and Policies, together with the Land Use Plan Element and the Thoroughfare Plan Element, form the basic components of the Comprehensive Plan.\u00a0 Comprehensive Plans are intended to evolve over time.\u00a0 For Columbus, this evolution has occurred as additional, more detailed elements are added for specific geographic areas and topics.\u00a0 Examples of these supplemental elements would include the Downtown Strategic Development Plan, the Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan, and the Central Avenue Corridor Plan.\u00a0 The Columbus Comprehensive Plan is adopted by the Columbus City Council.<\/p>\n