Planning Commission

On August 5, 2024, the City of Perry Planning Commission approved adoption of the 2024 Master Plan. The City Council formally adopted the Master Plan on Sept 5, 2024, at a regularly scheduled council meeting.

Planning for the future change and continual development and redevelopment of a community and its resulting land uses is largely dependent on where the community is located. Understanding the regional location of a community and other existing conditions such as transportation systems, environmental features, demographics, and more helps to drive logical, pragmatic, and action-oriented implementation measures that can be used to steer the community into a sustainable future. Not only is it imperative to understand regional location and existing conditions within a community, other elements such as regional development and planning trends—as well as broad development and planning trends—are significant foundations to the master planning process and subsequent implementation actions taken by a community. By analyzing both regional and broad planning trends, a community can proactively prepare for changing environments and seamlessly adapt to growth and development for years to come. The 2024 Master Plan process in Perry started in May of 2023 and took one-year to complete.

All data, conclusions, and implementation measures, and recommendations in this Plan derive from a robust public engagement process, high-level existing conditions analysis, and expansive knowledge of best practices in planning. Each of these elements is critical to effective, implementable city planning. Taken together, they form a strong foundation that will guide and support The City of Perry into a thriving, vibrant, and sustainable future.