INTRODUCTION This guide explains general planning concepts and planning processes for Bowling Green, KY. With this guide, you will obtain common language and knowledge of planning already known to professional planners and developers. This guide is an effort to provide a better understanding of planning as it exists in Bowling Green today. HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE Residents: You can use this guide however you feel necessary, but it should help you navigate the local planning process and understand your current role in the planning of your community. Community Organizers: You can use this guide to strategize how you may leverage the planning process to enhance your organizing work in your community. You can also become educated through this document to support a vision, promote ideas, projects and efforts, and become better community advocates to enhance your neighborhoods. This guide may also help you find planning policies or parts of the planning process that could be improved and at what level (federal, state, local) those gaps exist.
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