Being involved in town planning in your community can be exciting. After all, you might be looking forward to making changes and improvements to the community that you, your friends, co-workers, and neighbors work in. You can do a lot of great things with town planning if you have a good planning committee, but you should know that it's possible to make some mistakes along the way as well. These are some of the common mistakes that are made during town planning that you and your committee will want to avoid.
Not Thinking About the Future
Of course, you probably want to do what you can to make your town better for the people who live there right now. However, even though you should certainly consider the current population and state of your town when you are focusing on town planning, you should think about the future. Leaving your town room to grow by doing things like updating your infrastructure so that it can handle more homes and more residents can help you ensure that your town's growth will be seamless.
Not Getting Insight From Residents
Another common mistake that is often made during the town planning process is not getting enough insight from the residents of the community. It's true that you and the others on your town planning committee might be residents of the community yourselves, but you will still want to get insight from others who live in the community about the changes and improvements that they would like to see in the community that they live in. After all, their tax dollars will more than likely be put toward the changes and improvements that are made. Plus, you probably want to do everything that you can to ensure that residents are happy. Therefore, you may want to host a few meetings that the general public is invited to so that you can get their insight about things. You will probably also want to pay attention to what residents are saying about the community on social media when calling and talking to officials from the town, and more.
Not Working With the Right Professionals
Of course, no matter how committed you and the others on your committee might be to helping your town grow and improve, you are probably going to need some help. You'll need to know when to hire professionals to help with things like civil works. You'll also need to make sure that you hire the right professionals so you can count on them to do good work in your town.
