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The Comprehensive Plan Update Committee began work on defining “crossroads communities” Tuesday night.

The committee met in regular session to discuss the crossroads community issue, and continue refining the plan objectives.

Della Rucker, a representative from the Jacobs Advanced Planning Group, facilitated the meeting and explained the importance of dealing with crossroads communities in the plan.

“If you have existing character of any type. … and your zoning does not permit anyone to re-invest in those communities, they will fall apart,” Rucker said. “When the places fail, they don’t just vanish.”

Crossroads communities were mentioned in the 2004 plan, but were not defined, making it difficult for planning commissioners to make decisions regarding development in certain areas. The previous plan identified seven areas that might be considered crossroads communities: Trapp, Forest Grove, Goff’s Corner, Pilot View, Old Pine Grove, Becknerville and Sewell Shop.

“We’re spending time working through it to see what this community really wants. … Is it (a crossroads community) a rural community that just wants to have its own identity or is it a rural community that wants city services?” Rhonda Cromer, director of planning and community development, said.

The definition also is important because the way a community is developed can change its identity, Cromer said.

Defining crossroads communities is “good for these areas where people have historically lived and have a sense of community and do have an identity,” Cromer said.

Committee members are still working on an exact definition, though they did list several characteristics of a crossroads community, including denser housing than the surrounding area and an anchor for the community other than houses. The group also discussed using a term other than “crossroads community” when a definition is finalized.

The committee continued revising the objectives from the 2004 plan and will review them again at the April meeting before sending them, along with the vision statement and the goals, to the Winchester Board of Commissioners and the Clark County Fiscal Court for approval. When the draft is approved, the committee will work on the text for the plan.

For more information on the Clark County Comprehensive Plan, contact the Office of Planning and Community Development at 744-7019.

The next committee meeting will be April 13 at the Clark County Cooperative Extension Office at 6 p.m.

Contact Rachel Parsons at rparsons@winchestersun.com.

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