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Wisconsin’s comprehensive planning and smart growth law requires that, by 2010, local government programs and activities that affect land use be consistent with their adopted comprehensive plan. Comprehensive plans must include nine elements: issues and opportunities; housing; transportation; utilities and community facilities; agriculture, natural, and cultural resources; economic development; intergovernmental cooperation; land use; and implementation. In addition to these nine elements, it is important that communities on the Great Lakes plan for the preservation and sustainable use of coastal amenities. An important goal of this topic is the development of a GIS-based “tool-kit” to support smart growth and comprehensive planning in Great Lakes coastal communities.
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Great Lakes Circle Tour - Coastal Access Guide
The Great Lakes Circle Tour leads you around the largest freshwater system on the planet – but the main route often takes you far from the water's edge. This site shows you where to pull off the highway for a quiet beach, a hidden lighthouse, or a secluded park.


Coastal Community Planning and Development Reading List
The purpose of this list is to provide access to books that will help elected officials, government staff, and citizen planners guide the growth and development of their community. The list is divided into several categories: classic planning literature and general planning texts, planning books geared for citizens and local officials, smart growth and new urbanism, environmental planning, waterfront and coastal planning, and Great Lakes issues. Web sites for learning more about coastal community planning and development are located at the bottom of the list. Wisconsin residents can check out materials online for pickup at their local public library.


Great Lakes Coastal Community Planning Resource
The Great Lakes Coastal Community Planning Resource provides a toolkit to support comprehensive planning and sustainable development along the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior coasts of Wisconsin.  This site provide links to an online Coastal Planning Guidebook and Comprehensive Plan examples, as well as to information on laws and regulations that affect coastal resources planning, maps and GIS data, training opportunities, and news and events.


Shoreland Management GIS Application for Blue Lake, Oneida County
GIS is a useful tool to assist in managing development along the shores of inland lakes.  This website documents a GIS application using local government data sets for BlueLake in Oneida County, Wisconsin.  It provides a “teaching model” for the application of GIS to shoreland management. The training exercise for this application has been utilized as part of several training workshops.
http://coastal.lic.wisc.edu/bluelake/welcome.htm


Lake Superior Circle Tour Map Server
The Great Lakes Circle Tour is a scenic road network established by the Great Lakes Commission and designated by the eight states and two provinces adjacent to the lakes.  The Lake Superior Circle Tour Map Server is a prototype interactive web mapping site for the Lake Superior portion of the Great Lakes Circle Tour.  In addition to depicting the Circle Tour designated highways, it includes local roads, water features, marinas, boat launches, and other local landmarks.
http://coastal.lic.wisc.edu/gwiz_mapserver/circletour/client_index.php

 

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David Hart
dhart@aqua.wisc.edu

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UW-Madison
1975 Willow Dr
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Madison, WI 53706

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(608) 262-6515

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(608) 262-0591
  
 
 

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