Guide to Community Planning in Wisconsin by Brian W. Ohm	Chapter 2:  Types of Plans & Overview of Implementation Tools
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The Wisconsin Statutes provide for the creation of regional planning commissions.(36)  The regional planning commissions "may make plans for the physical, social and economic development of the region, and may adopt by resolution any plan or the portion of any plan so prepared as its official recommendation for the development of the region."(37) Specifically, the regional planning commission can prepare a master plan for the region that shows the commission's recommendations for the physical development of a region's transportation system, parks and open space system, airports, sewers, water, and other public and private utilities, as well as areas for industrial, commercial, residential, and agricultural or recreational development. The master plan may be adopted in whole or in parts and is advisory only.(38)  Any local unit of government may adopt all or any portion of the regional master plan.(39)

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(36) Wis. Stats. § 66.945.
(37) Wis. Stats. § 66.945(8).
(38) Wis. Stat. § 66.945(9) - (10).
(39) Wis. Stat. § 66.945(12)(a).

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