2009-2011

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN is currently engaged in a three year project to produce a COMPREHENSIVE PLAN to ensure smart, sustainible growth for the future.

Susan Allen, president of the RNA, was selected by Mayor Burgess to serve on the Steering Committee of 15 citizens to help guide this process.

The following excerpts are from the Comprehensive Plan website:

Introduction

Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) in association with Regan-Smith Associates, Bill Terry & Associates and the MTSU Business and Economic Research Center has been selected as the consulting team for the project.

The Comprehensive Plan is a major undertaking and will become the policy foundation for all future planning in the unincorporated areas of Rutherford County. A Comprehensive Plan is a means of establishing a long-term community vision by looking 15 to 20 years into the future, determining needs, setting goals and objectives, and formulating policies that direct future development to be consistent with that vision.

Why do we Plan?

The purpose of doing a plan is to ensure an overall quality of life standard be maintained and improved in the future. This is accomplished by identifying the issues the community faces and finding ways to address those issues in the coming years. Planning allows us to take a look at where the community has been, how it got to this point, where it wants to go, and how it can get there. Essentially planning allows a community to prepare for change rather than react to it.