We need YOUR help.

Quitman lacks a clear direction to improve our community, manage the cost of services, and stimulate economic growth. Bringing together the expertise of our citizens, businesses, and organizations to plan our future through various workgroups will set us on a clear path of what we want Quitman to look like in the year 2030.

As a concerned citizen, you can help manage, direct, and coordinate this direction by working with the Community Involvement Committee. Your ideas and plans will assist us in moving the work toward completion. 

Citizen Involvement Committee

Bill Beech

Physical Environment & Land Use

Dr. Paul Driver

Public / Community Facilities

Jim Dozier

Circulation & Transportation

Sam Lange

Housing & Development

Lance White

Economy & Population

MOVING FORWARD - NOT TURNING AROUND

Some planning has already taken place over the past few years. This included some evaluation of issues facing our community, goals & objectives to be aimed for, and some solutions & direction.  The summary of this effort, which was a 'brochure plan', will form the basis of a more extensive and comprehensive plan.

Before the recent 'brochure plan', no plan had been undertaken and completed for our community since 1975. Usually, a complete comprehensive plan would cover a 20 year period and be reviewed / revised every five years. An effort is now underway to answer the question "What do we want Quitman to be in the year 2030 and how do we get there?"  You have part of the answer to this question.

PLANNING THE WORK

Not only is planning necessary for good development, it is required by state law.

The Quitman:2030 City Plan will meet these requirements, but more importantly it will provide a roadmap for the work of developing our community over the coming years. Also, it will provide a unified vision of who we are and what we believe Quitman should become.

It will address critical areas such as: transportation, city services, land use, and economic growth. The plan will answer the most essential questions we are dealing with in shaping the future of our community.

WORKING THE PLAN

Certain local regulations must be based on a Comprehensive Plan and revisions of these will come out of this process to make sure the plan is implemented.

These include the city zoning regulations that determine how land in various places within the city can be used and will be developed. Current zoning regulations are from 1975 and cannot be revised until a new plan is completed.

Similarly, subdivision regulations control how new residential development will take place and to insure certain infrastructure like roads, drainage, and utilities are properly installed. Again these are currently from 1975 and rely on a plan to be effective.