Strategic Plan
Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission adopted their five-year Strategic Plan in April 2021. The Strategic Plan is a tool to describe the Planning Commission’s priorities and desired outcomes while continuing to illustrate the skills and value of the Regional Planning Commission as a County department. It provides a concrete vision for the work the LCRPC is looking to accomplish over a five-year horizon through 2026. The Strategic Plan is a living document. Updates to the Plan are anticipated within its effective dates. The Plan will be presented to the LCRPC Board and County Commissioners for approval.
Beginning in 2019, LCRPC staff generated input from the Executive Committee to identify the areas of work they felt were important for the Regional Planning Commission. The Strategic Planning Committee, after a reassessment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, concluded with six priorities for the LCRPC staff to create work plans from and make the Plan actionable.
The Strategic Planning Committee recommended that a yearly staff work plan be developed to ensure action areas for each Priority – Housing, Broadband, Sustainable Economic & Community Development, Transportation, Intergenerational Community Building, and Environmental Sustainability – are being undertaken by staff. The yearly work plan is how staff will make the Strategic Plan “actionable” and develop annual budgets. Approval of the yearly work plan is at the discretion of the LCRPC Executive Director with input, as needed, from the LCRPC Board.
To identify how impactful the Priorities would be for Lincoln County towns and residents within a 1-2 year period, the LCRPC Strategic Planning Committee ranked each one on a scale of 1 – 10, one having the least impact and ten being the most impactful. While all Priorities will be worked on in various amounts at various times throughout the year, the ranking exercise was important for the Strategic Planning Committee to identify the value of each Priority in relation to the others, and to help inform future tasks within the work plan.
Housing
Broadband Internet
Sustainable Economic & Community Development
LCRPC is working to increase the availability of housing stock, with a focus on workforce housing to sustain local economy and allow for new generations to create roots in Lincoln County
LCRPC staff and our Connectivity Booster (funded by a new initiative with the Maine Broadband Coalition) work with towns by providing broadband knowhow; grant application assistance
LCRPC provides economic development and Community Development Block Grant assistance. Our work includes infrastructure, grant writing and data research for businesses and nonprofits
Transportation
Community Building
Environmental Sustainability
LCRPC works closely with MDOT staff to provide input on their 3-year Work Plan, offer technical assistance to municipalities, including participation with town public safety and cycling committees, and assist in transportation comprehensive plan chapter updates for towns.
Connecting communities across all of all ages through social and cultural connections, health, wellness, and recreation activities, public places, diversified employment and housing, civic engagement, and transportation options in Lincoln County.
Lincoln County work areas include sea level rise (SLR) mapping; inland and coastal flooding; adaptation and hazard mitigation planning; supporting green energy initiatives; grant assistance; and coordinating across sectors in Lincoln County’s agriculture, aquaculture, and food systems.