The Comprehensive Plan process was led by Amy as Senior Planner at Behan Planning and Design, alongside a dedicated group of village volunteers and supported by the Village Board. The Plan provides a vision and set of goals to guide the village in the next 10 years of its development. The Comprehensive Plan takes into consideration the village’s unique history, identity, character, and values while addressing each aspect of the village by utilizing previous reports, undertaking substantial community outreach, and balancing the needs of residents and businesses to foster the community’s vision.

Amy worked with the Village of Ballston Spa  Steering Committee to complete significant public outreach for the Comprehensive Plan update.  A Visioning Workshop was held in 2022. It was both an in-person and virtual event, with participants able to access it on Zoom and consultants online to facilitate the virtual meeting.  Amy created a public survey, with input from the Committee, in the summer of 2022 that was distributed through both a paper and online version.  To help inform the land use vision and the zoning implications of it, a visual preference survey was distributed to the Steering Committee. The visual preference survey included images related to existing areas of the village and images related to potential changes to the village as shown in the Future Land Use Vision Map. These were broken down into nine different “character areas” which roughly represent the long-term goals of the community with respect to how different neighborhoods should develop.