Implementation Best Practice

Best Practice Integration

The plan reflects best practices from the American Planning Association, as well as goals, objectives, and actions proposed in two ancillary Village studies, the Saw Mill River Revitalization Plan and the Market Analysis & Development Strategy. To help integrate sustainability into the Comprehensive Plan, Ardsley consulted the American Planning Association’s Sustaining Places: Best Practices for Comprehensive Plans, which presents planning principles that communities can apply to ensure their comprehensive plans facilitate sustainable development. Sustaining Places introduces planning themes that facilitate a livable built environment, harmony with nature, a resilient economy, equity, healthy communities, and responsible regionalism. For each of these themes, Sustaining Places suggests best-practice actions that help implement the theme’s related goals and objectives. Sustaining Places also advocates planning processes that engage all segments of the community, implementation accountability, and planning policies consistent with existing community conditions and coordinated across plan themes. Planning policies should also coordinate with federal and state requirements and among other local plans within a locality’s region. Using Sustaining Places as a guide, the Comprehensive Plan is organized around five main themes described below.