Winner of MAP 2024 Plan of the Year!
The City of Bath started work on a comprehensive plan update in 2018. After a few years of internal work, the City contracted with North Star Planning in 2022 to hold public engagement events for the plan and complete the work staff had started. NSP hosted several in-person meetings and online activities to get wide-ranging input from the community and developed an implementation-focused final plan based around four big ideas for Bath. The plan includes a framework for incorporating implementation into the annual work plan of each City department and committee. An interactive executive summary StoryMap provides an accessible introduction to the plan. The State of Maine issued a finding of consistency on October 30, 2023 with no required changes.