Advance Plans Committee
Summary of Meeting
7:35 am, June 21, 2007
Attendance
Committee and MAPC Members: 	Elizabeth Bishop, Bud Hentzen, Ron Marnell, John 
McKay, Nelson Van Fleet, David Dennis, Bud Aldrich, Mitch 
Mitchell
MAPD staff:  	Christy Askew, Stephen Banks, Dave Barber, Scott Knebel, John 
Schlegel, Scott Wadle
Others:	Bob Parnacott

Discussion Summary

1.	The Advance Plans Committee approved the minutes of the February 15, 2007 
Committee meeting.

2.	Bob Parnacott, legal counsel for Sedgwick County, presented a legal overview of 
the Kansas statutes as they relate to the authority, scope and process of developing 
and adopting comprehensive plans.  The Committee noted that the relationship 
between the City and County CIP's and the Wichita-Sedgwick County 
Comprehensive Plan needs to be strengthened.

3.	The Committee reviewed and discussed the various required and optional 
elements of a comprehensive plan. Some members felt that the existing adopted 
comprehensive plan contains too many goals, objectives and strategies, some of 
which are conflicting or ambiguous. The Plan tries to be something for everyone. 
There was a general consensus that a most effective plan would be one that 
focused on fewer elements that are most relevant to the community, particularly 
those elements related to the future physical form and infrastructure of the 
community. The Committee agreed that the infrastructure plans of other City and 
County Departments need to be integrated into the development of an effective 
Comprehensive Plan.

4.	The Committee reviewed the relevance of two recent community-wide initiatives, 
Visioneering Wichita and the City of Wichita 2006 Citizen's Survey, to any 
future revisions or updates to the Wichita-Sedgwick County Comprehensive Plan.  
There was consensus that these initiatives would provide valuable input and 
direction to the review and update of the Comprehensive Plan. 

5.	Further discussions on this subject will be needed. The next Committee meeting is 
tentatively scheduled for July 19th to hear presentations on the City and County 
CIP's.

6.	Meeting adjourned at 9:00 a.m.