2023 Comprehensive Plan Update Page
WELCOME to our 2023 Comprehensive Plan Update Page! As we move through the process, this page will grow with more data and opportunities to assist in providing feedback for the Town of Bridgeville’s Comprehensive Plan.
The Town of Bridgeville began this process over a year ago by surveying visitors to our events, like the Apple Scrapple Festival. In 2022, the Town was able to partner with Cornerstone Community Center and obtain a grant through Healthy Communities Delaware. This grant enabled us to create an outreach program and a public participation goal – so that we could engage in every effort possible to make sure our resident’s voices are represented in the Comprehensive Plan.
Healthy Communities Delaware focuses on Vital Conditions and the framework those conditions provide – which happen to be all of the elements that go into the development of a Town’s Comprehensive Plan.
THE VITAL CONDITIONS FRAMEWORK
The Vital Conditions for Well-Being is a useful framework for conceptualizing holistic well-being and the conditions that give rise to it, as well as identifying levers for community change and improvement. These vital conditions are: Basic Needs for Health+ Safety • Lifelong Learning • Meaningful Work + Wealth • Humane Housing • Thriving Natural World • Reliable Transportation • Belonging + Civic Muscle. When all vital conditions are met, individuals and communities are thriving together.
Our ability to thrive depends on having a consistent set of vital conditions, such as clean air, fair pay, humane housing, early education, routine health care, and other basic necessities. Personal experiences may rise and fall from birth to death. However, vital conditions persist over generations. They shape the exposures, choices, opportunities, and adversities that we each encounter throughout our lives.
You can read more about Healthy Communities Delaware Here – https://healthycommunitiesde.org/
And more specifically, our project is listed in the 2022 Progress Report here (we are on Page 28!) https://healthycommunitiesde.org/community-impact-1\
**If you missed it on the last page and would like to review it before taking our survey, our 2018 Comprehensive Plan is here – https://bridgeville.delaware.gov/files/2019/05/Bridgeville-Comp-Plan.pdf
So now is where you can help the process along and exercise your civic muscle! Below are links to several surveys. Please take a few moments to participate – the more data collected, the better.
If you have any issues, questions, or concerns related to these surveys, please contact us at Town Hall by email at townofbridgeville@gmail.com.
Letter Sent out to all residents of 19933 in 2024 – Comp Plan Survey Letter
- Survey 1 – Resident Survey – This Survey is longer and is designed for those who live within Bridgeville.
- Survey 2 – Nonresidents and Events – This Survey is shorter and is designed for those who attend events in Bridgeville or who do not live in Bridgeville.