Make your voice heard about the future of Dartmouth at an upcoming Master Plan workshop. 

The workshop, which will be held on October 30 at 6:30 p.m. at the North Dartmouth Library, will focus on gathering resident input to shape an in-development Dartmouth Master Plan.

The plan will serve as a guiding document to assess where the town is now, how it got here, and where to go from here. A new master plan is produced each decade. It is being produced by the Town of Dartmouth and the Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District.

Under state law, the town’s master plan must include nine components: goals and policies, land use, housing, economic development, natural and cultural resources, open space and recreation, services and facilities, circulation (transportation infrastructure), and an implementation section outlining specific policy changes and timelines. Dartmouth’s master plan will include a tenth component addressing climate change. 

At the first public meeting on the master plan, residents weighed in on issues important to them and what they see should be a focus moving forward. Ideas presented at that meeting ranged from climate change resilience to protecting natural resources. 

The October 30 meeting will focus on the issue areas of land use, housing, and economic development. 

For more information about the master plan, and to read results from prior meetings, visit srpedd.org/Dartmouth-Master-Plan.