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A new master plan that will guide local development over the coming decades received the stamp of approval Wednesday from the El Paso County Planning Commission.
When approved, the new El Paso County master plan will guide local development for the next 20 to 30 years as the county prepares to pack in hundreds of thousands of new residents during that time. Its adoption will also end a more than 2 ½-year “robust” planning and development process that included county staff, design consultants and the public, planners said.
But some residents were concerned they did not have an adequate opportunity to review and provide feedback on the plan because it was not available to them until March 9, just two months ahead of its scheduled adoption hearings in May.
Planning advocate Judy von Ahlefeldt also said the county did not hold enough public meetings seeking input, and that technical difficulties, such as trouble logging into a cloud-based mapping and analysis program that would have better allowed residents to interact with the draft plan, possibly hindered virtual public engagement when in-person meetings were paused during the pandemic.
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