Comprehensive Plan

The purpose of the City and Borough of Wrangell Comprehensive Plan is to guide growth over the next 10 to 20 years. The plan was adopted by the Borough Assembly in June 2010. The Plan describes current conditions, reviews outstanding issues and needs, and lays out an orderly path to help achieve the desired future. Topics covered are quality of life, municipal government, the economy and economic development, transportation, land use, public works and utilities, public safety, public services, and remote settlement areas.

The Wrangell Comprehensive Plan establishes broad goals to set overall direction, specific policies that are the desired future that the community wants to achieve over time, and sets out actions to chart a path to help achieve the goals. It will take the City and Borough of Wrangell; local tribal, state and federal agencies; the private sector; and civic and business groups working together to make things happen.

 Some specific ways to use the Comprehensive Plan are to:
• Help the Assembly set goals and priorities at the start of the budget cycle or when a new Assembly is elected.
• Use the community needs identified in the plan as a basis for annual departmental budgets and the capital improvement program.
• Use the future growth maps and the plan’s goals, policies and actions to guide revisions to the zoning, subdivision and other land development ordinances and to amend zoning maps.
• Review ordinances, other plans, capital improvements and public programs to ensure consistency with the Comprehensive Plan.
• Assist the Planning and Zoning Commission in determining if proposed development projects are consistent with Wrangell’s goals and future vision.
• Use information in this Plan when formally coordinating with federal and state agencies.