2024 Final Draft Comprehensive Plan

The State of Maine approved the City of Belfast Comprehensive Plan on March 18th, 2024. This new comprehensive plan was an intensive, multi-year effort led by the Belfast Comprehensive Planning Committee, in partnership with the City of Belfast, to update the 2012 City of Belfast Comprehensive Plan. The new plan includes a vision statement, descriptions of community outreach performed during the process, existing and future opportunities for regional coordination, implementation strategies, a future land use plan, inventories of various state-required topic areas, and recommendations for future actions. The plan identifies housing, mobility, and climate solutions as immediate priorities. 

After a public hearing on June 4, 2024, the City Council voted to approve the plan. The final draft of the Comprehensive Plan is linked below and will be printed and available for review in person at City Hall. 

2024 Final Draft Comprehensive Plan

Please send any questions to compplan@cityofbelfast.org

Comprehensive Plan Public Hearing Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

BELFAST CITY COUNCIL

BELFAST COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

The Belfast City Council, at its meeting of Tuesday, June 4, 2024, beginning at 7:00 p.m. or as soon as practical thereafter, at Belfast City Hall, 131 Church Street, Belfast, Maine, shall conduct a Public Hearing regarding the new, state-approved Belfast Comprehensive Plan. 

This new comprehensive plan was an intensive, multi-year effort led by the Belfast Comprehensive Planning Committee, in partnership with the City of Belfast, to update the 2012 Belfast Comprehensive Plan. The 2024 City of Belfast Comprehensive Plan was found consistent with Maine’s Growth Management Act and approved by the State Municipal Planning Office on March 18th, 2024. 

The new plan includes a vision statement, descriptions of community outreach performed during the process, existing and future opportunities for regional coordination, implementation strategies, a future land use plan, inventories of various state-required topic areas, and recommendations for future actions. The plan identifies housing, mobility, and climate solutions as immediate priorities. 

Printed copies of the full plan are available to read in person at City Hall or online at https://www.cityofbelfast.org/414/Comprehensive-Planning-Committee. 

All persons wishing to make comments or ask questions about the new comprehensive plan are invited to attend this Public Hearing. Comments may be submitted in writing to: City of Belfast, 131 Church Street, Belfast Maine, 04915; or via email to: public@cityofbelfast.org by 12 noon on June 4, 2024.