What is Plan Bloomfield?
The Town of Bloomfield is looking forward to planning for its future and fostering a vision for the following decade. Residents, community members, businesses, and stakeholders will come together to create a strategic vision and a comprehensive framework of values, goals, strategies, and actions that will guide Bloomfield’s physical, social, and economic development.
Plan Bloomfield is our Town’s guide for the future. It shows where we have been and lays out the vision for where we are going. Through an iterative and equitable engagement process, Bloomfield residents will share their local expertise and workshop the path forward for Bloomfield. The final result will be a Community Vision and Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) update that represents the diversity of Bloomfield and puts forward recommendations that benefit all of its residents and communities.
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Bloomfield Community Vision & Plan of Conservation and Development
Officially, Plan Bloomfield is a Community Vision and Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) update that will serve as the guiding document for municipal decision-making over the next decade. In Connecticut, a POCD is required to be updated every 10 years and covers a wide range of topics such as land use, housing, natural resource management, infrastructure, resilience, economic development, social services, transportation, cultural and historical assets, and energy. Bloomfield’s last POCD was approved in 2012.
The process affords residents and stakeholders an opportunity to assess where they stand, how things have changed, and where they want to go over the next ten-plus years. The Plan serves as a policy guide that establishes the foundation of Bloomfield’s zoning ordinance and can direct a municipality's policies, budgets, capital investments, and grant pursuits.
The Bloomfield POCD will engage broad diversity of stakeholders in an iterative, multi-pronged approach, ensuring that everyone, including those from underrepresented communities, is heard in the process. The dynamic, people-focused Plan will serve as a reference document for demographic information, resources, and an inventory of Town assets and is a tool that engages community members and residents long after the planning process is complete. Through inclusive, informative, and accessible engagement opportunities, the POCD fosters community buy-in and ownership of recommendations.
