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A comprehensive plan is a map of intentions, and the county's series can be read plan by plan. Its ancestor in the map case is the undated Land Use and Transportation Plan for South Bend, Mishawaka, and St. Joseph County, and its named foundation is the 1973 Transportation and Land Use Plan, cited as such in its successor. The successor is the Comprehensive Plan for South Bend and St. Joseph County, Indiana of April 2002, prepared by HNTB with the St. Joseph County Area Plan Commission: a future-land-use map for the whole county, a “2025 Transportation Plan” chapter, and named growth geography — the continuing Capital Avenue corridor and the Blackthorn area — that has since been built substantially as drawn, including across this ground's southern edge. South Bend withdrew from the Area Plan Commission on 1 December 2019 and took its own plan commission with it, narrowing the county plan to the unincorporated county and the five member towns (Lakeville, New Carlisle, North Liberty, Osceola, Roseland). The county's 2021 request for proposals states the position plainly: the last comprehensive plan was completed in 2002, nearly twenty years old, its projects “accomplished or need[ing] to be re-evaluated.” The replacement was adopted on 15 October 2024, when the Area Plan Commission approved resolution APC R-267-24: a twenty-year plan in eight pillars — economic development; housing and neighborhoods; quality of life; environmental stewardship; farmland preservation; government and policy; transportation and utilities; future land use — carried, as the 2002 plan was, by its future-land-use and priority-area maps. For Granger the series is the paper pre-history of the place: zoned, coloured and corridor-drawn on county plan maps for two decades before most of the rooftops arrived, and the 2024 plan's farmland-preservation pillar is the first in the series to argue, in map form, for keeping some of this ground unbuilt.
Sources: Comprehensive Plan for South Bend and St. Joseph County (April 2002, HNTB / Area Plan Commission — contents incl. “The 1973 Transportation and Land Use Plan” and “The 2025 Transportation Plan”); St. Joseph County RFP for a new Comprehensive Plan (Feb 2021 — 2002 plan statement; South Bend withdrawal, 1 Dec 2019; APC membership); Area Plan Commission adoption of APC R-267-24, 15 Oct 2024 (eight pillars; future-land-use and priority-area maps); SJCPL map case (Land Use and Transportation Plan, n.d.).