Livingston County Master Plan

Our new Livingston County Master Plan (adopted 2018) highlights a wide variety of current planning Trends and provides numerous Best Practices examples from local municipalities, our region, our State and throughout the US, and is intended to be used by local cities, villages and townships during the formation or revision of their own plans, maps, and ordinances.

Any information found in this Livingston County Master Plan is meant to be duplicated in local planning and zoning documents, and to us at Livingston County Planning, this would be the best affirmation of the Plan!

County Interactive Master Plan

Full Master Plan Document (25 Mb): 2018 County Master Plan
Note On Optimal Use of Document Hyperlinks: For optimal use of the document and the vast number of hyperlinks contained within the document, please download and save document to your personal computer or similar device. Doing so will allow the user to clink on a hyperlink within the document, which will then open in a separate browser window, thus allowing the user save their place within the original document.
The Critical Issues identified in this plan were deemed by County Planning to be the planning issues most relevant to Livingston County; relevant in a broad sense to the whole county or large portions of the county. Therefore, it is County Planning’s hope that these critical issues will be considered by our local Livingston County communities. The Best Practices in this plan then provide an easy way for Livingston County communities to implement requirements in their zoning ordinances that will address these critical issues. Finally, the Resource sections in each chapter give local communities the website links and source documentation that will make it easy to replicate this best practice in their own plans and ordinances. This Plan has been developed to connect us as a group of twenty communities, so that the positive impacts of good planning and zoning practices are multiplied by being replicated throughout a majority of our Livingston County communities.
INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS: (See NOTE above regarding optimal use of hyperlinks contained within document)
Preface:Preface
Chapter 1:Introduction
Chapter 2:Community Profile
Chapter 3:Vision
Chapter 4:Land Use and Growth Management
Chapter 5:Natural Resources
Chapter 6:Parks and Recreation
Chapter 7:Agriculture and Rural Environment
Chapter 8:Housing
Chapter 9:Social Equity
Chapter 10:Transportation and Infrastructure
Chapter 11:Technology
Chapter 12:Economic Development
Chapter 13:Hazard Mitigation
Chapter 14:Plan Implementation
Appendix:Appendix