Help shape Winchester’s future by attending the upcoming Comprehensive Plan public input meeting:

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 (Inclement Weather date: March 1)

John Handley High School Griffin Student Union (use Handley Boulevard entrance)

• 6:30 pm open house, view exhibits
• 7:00 pm staff and consultant presentations
• 8:00 pm public Q&A
• 8:30 pm additional open house time

Winchester citizens are invited to attend this meeting on the update of the City’s long-range Comprehensive Plan and to provide input on the goals, objectives, and alternative development scenarios that have been drafted as part of the update process and in response to earlier public input meetings. For more information contact the Winchester Planning Department at 667-1815 or plngdept@ci.winchester.va.us.

Virginia requires that every locality prepare and adopt a Comprehensive Plan for the physical development within its jurisdiction. Localities are tasked with making careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing conditions and trends of growth, and the probable future requirements of its territory and inhabitants. Virginia State Code requires that every locality review their plan once every five years but does not require that it be rewritten. The City of Winchester’s current plan is in the process of being updated with the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the City which will, in accordance with present and probable future needs and resources, best promote the health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and general welfare of the inhabitants, including the elderly and persons with disabilities. For more information about the Comprehensive Plan update, click on the following