Comprehensive Planning Process
We're working with award-winning consultants JM Goldson to complete our Comprehensive Plan by June 2026!
A full draft of the plan is now available for public reading and comment. Public comments are welcome through June 12. Read it and enter your comments on our project website: COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WEBSITE
View the posters displayed at Town Meeting on June 1 HERE.
Accomplishments, in reverse chronological order:
From February through May of 2026 we were refining the strategies and writing and editing the full plan.
In January 2026 we held five public workshops to review and discuss the proposed Strategies.
During November 2025 through January 2026, we worked with community stakeholders, Town Boards and Committees, and Town Departments to develop a list of Strategies to accomplish the goals we've set out.
On October 24, 2025, we published Williamsburg Today, a summary of existing conditions in the town. This serves as a baseline and reference point for developing plans for the next ten years. Click on the image below to read this report.
We aired the vision, themes, and goals in an Open House and an online version of that Open House in June and July of 2025.
In 2025 we received a grant from the state Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities to complete our Comprehensive Plan. We ran a competitive bidding process and selected JM Goldson as the consultants to help us complete the Plan.
We produced a report Called Vision For the Future in January 2025, in which we condensed all that we heard into five core themes. These are
- PRESERVE THE TOWN’S RURAL CHARACTER
- REDUCE IMPACT ON CLIMATE AND STRENGTHEN PREPAREDNESS
- PROMOTE AN INTERCONNECTED COMMUNITY
- PLAN FOR POPULATION CHANGE
- PROMOTE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
You can read the results of our survey and community meetings that were held in 2023-2024 via the links below.
Vision Statement for Comprehensive Plan, 2025, report only (without appendices)
Vision Statement for Comprehensive Plan, 2025, complete with appendice including survey results
In 2023-2024, we ran a "visioning" process; conducting a survey and holding seven public listening sessions. The Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (PVPC) helped us with this process and it was paid for with a combination of PVPC funds and Town funds.