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15-1102. Comprehensive plan; requirements;contents.The general plan for the improvement and developmentof the city of the primary class shall be known as the comprehensive plan.This plan for governmental policies and action shall include the pattern andintensity of land use, the provision of public facilities including transportationand other governmental services, the effective development and utilizationof human and natural resources, the identification and evaluation of areaneeds including housing, employment, education, and health and the formulationof programs to meet such needs, surveys of structures and sites determinedto be of historic, cultural, archaeological, or architectural significanceor value, long-range physical and fiscal plans for governmental policies andaction, and coordination of all related plans and activities of the stateand local governments and agencies concerned. The comprehensive plan, withthe accompanying maps, plats, charts and descriptive and explanatory materials,shall show the recommendations concerning the physical development patternof such city and of any land outside its boundaries related thereto, takinginto account the availability of and need for conserving land and other irreplaceablenatural resources, the preservation of sites of historic, cultural, archaeological,and architectural significance or value, the projected changes in size, movement,and composition of population, the necessity for expanding housing and employmentopportunities, and the need for methods of achieving modernization, simplification,and improvements in governmental structures, systems, and procedures relatedto growth objectives. The comprehensive plan shall, among other things, show:(1) The general location, character, and extent of existing and proposedstreets and highways and railroad, air, and other transportation routes andterminals;(2) Existing and proposed public ways, parks, grounds, and open spaces;(3) The general location, character, and extent of schools, school grounds,and other educational facilities and properties;(4) The general location and extent of existing and proposed publicutility installations;(5) The general location and extent of community development and housingactivities;(6) The general location of existing and proposed public buildings,structures, and facilities;and(7) When a new comprehensiveplan or a full update to an existing comprehensive plan is developed on orafter July 15, 2010, but not later than January 1, 2015, an energy elementwhich: Assesses energy infrastructure and energy use by sector, includingresidential, commercial, and industrial sectors; evaluates utilization ofrenewable energy sources; and promotes energy conservation measures that benefitthe community.The comprehensive plan shall includea land-use plan showing the proposed general distribution and general locationof business and industry, residential areas, utilities, and recreational,educational, and other categories of public and private land uses. The land-useplan shall also show the recommended standards of population density basedupon population estimates and providing for activities for which space shouldbe supplied within the area covered by the plan. The comprehensive plan shallinclude and show proposals for acquisition, extension, widening, narrowing,removal, vacation, abandonment, sale, and other actions affecting public improvements. SourceLaws 1959, c. 46, § 2, p. 229; Laws 1975, LB 111, § 1; Laws 2010, LB997, § 2.Effective Date: July 15, 2010AnnotationsA comprehensive plan is a general guide to community development. Holmgren v. City of Lincoln, 199 Neb. 178, 256 N.W.2d 686 (1977).