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Bridgeville invites public to comprehensive planning event

By Brad Hundt staff Writer bhundt@observer-Reporter.Com 2 min read

However necessary they may be, no one has ever associated a public gathering on a community’s comprehensive plan with fun.

Bridgeville aims to change that.

It is having a community event on its comprehensive plan Thursday starting at 5 p.m., but rather than being the equivalent of eating your peas, it will have a food truck, treats, live music, and a touch-a-truck contest. It will be in Bridgeville’s Fleet Depot lot, on the corner of Brookfield Street and Washington Avenue.

Those who attend will be asked what they like about Bridgeville and where they take visitors, what they would like to see improved in the borough and whether they would like to receive email updates on the planning process.

Joe Kauer, Bridgeville’s manager, said he is not aware of any other communities that have tried to gin up interest in a comprehensive plan with a fun community event. He explained the plan’s steering committee “is making an effort to make the planning something that will get the community out and involved. Our planning commissioners will be listening to what citizens have to say.”

The comprehensive plan will provide a vision for what Bridgeville will look like in the years ahead and how that vision could be achieved. It will identify goals and strategies, update land-use ordinances and provide a basis for seeking funding for projects, among other things. The borough last updated its comprehensive plan in 2005.

So far, three main areas of focus have emerged in the process: traffic control; flood mitigation; and business and economic development.

Additional information on the event and on Bridgeville’s comprehensive plan are available at bridgevilleboro.com.

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