City of Rye Comprehensive Plan 

Welcome to the City of Rye Comprehensive Plan website! This website will be the home base for any and everything involving the Comprehensive Plan update process, including engagement, background information, and project updates. This website will be revised as we move through the update process, so please check back periodically, and register to receive email updates!

What is a Comprehensive Plan?

The City of Rye’s Comprehensive Plan update is a unified planning effort between the City, its Comprehensive Plan Committee (CPC), its Project Team, and the residents and businesses of the City of Rye. A Comprehensive Plan is essential to a community. It creates a blueprint for future development and preservation of a community.  A Comprehensive Plan, developed with citizen participation and through consensus, helps establish a viable plan for the future. 

A Comprehensive Plan does not produce any direct changes once adopted, but it will offer guidance and potential next steps, such as undergoing further studies to determine specific projects on sites identified in the Plan, or the Plan could suggest the City enter into public/private partnerships to achieve certain goals. Comprehensive Plans can touch on a variety of topics, which will be derived based on feedback from the Comprehensive Plan Committee and community engagement. Topics could include sustainability, housing, downtown, natural resources, infrastructure, land use, etc.

Why are We Updating the Plan?

The City currently has a Comprehensive Plan that was developed in 1985. Not only has the City and its goals changed since then, but also the economy is vastly different, along with how we treat certain topics such as resiliency. A new plan will help identify new goals, opportunities, and challenges.

Get Involved

As we move forward in the Comprehensive Plan process, there will be multiple opportunities to provide feedback to the project team, both in person, and here online. You can visit the Meetings and Events tab above to see upcoming events as they are scheduled, and you can also sign up for email updates via the adjacent link.

Timeline

See the timeline below to see the phases that will occur before a new plan is adopted.