2024 Town of Fenwick Island Comprehensive Plan

PROJECT SYNOPSIS

A comprehensive plan guides future development or redevelopment of a community in order to create and maintain a desirable environment and promote health, safety, and welfare. The plan provides a community with a framework of policies and actions on which to rely when responding to evolving challenges and opportunities. It guides growth to areas that are most prepared to accept it in terms of infrastructure and thoughtful planning. Planning enables a community to understand and articulate its future. The 2023 Town of Fenwick Island Comprehensive Plan is intended to cover a 10-year planning window and be reviewed at least every five years in accordance with state law. It provides the framework for planning, design, and development decision making. Fenwick Island faces many challenges that are regional in nature and originate outside its borders or direct control. This Comprehensive Plan is intended to encourage vigilance to our town’s history and heritage and ensure the continuation of the vision and existing character of the town, even as increased development occurs in and around the town.