SIDNEY -- The City of Sidney Planning Commission and City Council met in a joint meeting July 17 to review and consider the City's Master Comprehensive Plan.

Amy Haase with RDG Planning and Design, explained the proposed Master Plan to council members, the Planning Commission and the public. She said the process started with RDG representatives meeting with City staff in 2022. The 2022 meeting was held to start identifying some of the City's goals and principals tied with where the community is today.

Phase 2 is the City's city development or land use plan, followed by the plan element, Haase said.

"In the state of Nebraska, within your Comprehensive Plan, there are specific things that you do have to have, so we included those things like an energy element, transportation section ... all of those things are actually required within your comprehensive plan.

She said RDG added economic development and community investment design as well.

She said the process included a survey conducted during Octoberfest 2022. The survey was paired down to two questions. The survey resulted in "a couple hundred" returns.

"We did a land use workshop that we held here in town to kind of flush out what does the future land-use project look like, where do we see residential and commercial and all of those different things happening," she said.

After the meeting, she said the Master Comprehensive Plan will be turned over to the City who will then decide how to release it to the public.