On March 19, 2024 the Brookline Select Board approved a contract with Agency Landscape + Planning and their team of sub-consultants for development of a Comprehensive Plan for the Town of Brookline. As defined by the American Planning Association, planning is “a process that seeks to engage all members of the community to create a more prosperous, convenient, equitable, healthy, and attractive place for present and future generations.”
This moment is both the culmination of years of advocacy and the beginning of a two-year process of exploration, dialogue, fact finding, goal setting, and visioning for the Town of Brookline.
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Brookline by Design has been instrumental in bringing this about, taking actions such as sponsoring a resolution at Town Meeting that urged the Select Board to pursue this project, circulating a petition to residents of the Town to join in the call for a Comp Plan, making budget requests to fund the comprehensive planning process, and chairing the committee that crafted the Town's planning process.
For a sneak peek into what the comp planning process will entail, take a look at the project proposal as approved here.