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The success of Community COMPASS and the 2030 Plan and Implementation Framework rests on the collaboration between groups and individuals across the public, private, and civic sectors in Hamilton County. In a county with 49 local governments, alignment of public sector decisions and intergovernmental collaboration will play a critical role in implementation of Hamilton County’s 2030 Plan.
As this plan moves ahead into implementation, coordination across the entire metropolitan area will be important to ensure success of various initiatives, and to coordinate local and county efforts with those taking place at the regional level. The intent of the Hamilton County Policy Plan for Intergovernmental Collaboration is to provide this coordination and assure appropriate alignment and consistency between local and regional goals.
The following set of draft policies is based on recommended policies for local governments developed in a five year process of discussion and refinement by the Land Use Commission of the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI). The OKI planning process parallels the efforts of Community COMPASS across an 8-county region. OKI established the Land Use Commission (LUC), with representation from each county (including more than 30 representatives from Hamilton County), for the specific purpose of producing a plan that will establish regional policies for land use, public facilities, and services.
OKI’s process for creating a strategic regional policy plan is in response to federal transportation legislation enacted in 1991 and 1998. The LUC’s recommendations are intended to guide local and county jurisdictions in ensuring that land use and transportation linkages are considered in all planning processes. Through the LUC’s work, strategic issues, goals, objectives, and draft policies have been identified for transportation, public facilities and services, natural resources and open space, housing, economic development, and land use. The scope of the LUC’s work includes policies related to six of the twelve elements of Community COMPASS. The policy plan does not include policies related to the Community COMPASS elements of civic engagement and social capital, culture and recreation, education, environmental and social justice, governance, and health and human services.
The Policy Plan for Hamilton County will be revised as OKI finalizes and approves its policy recommendations and as local governments and other stakeholders in Hamilton County continue to review and improve the recommended policies applicable to Hamilton County.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
HENRY KISSINGER
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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