Master Planning in Eagle County involves a broad range of stakeholders, from land management agencies to service providers, from community organizations to individual citizens.  Master Plans are guiding documents in Eagle County (they are not regulatory) and provide a description of present conditions as well as a vision for the future.  Good master plans are reality based, and include tools and suggestions that can be implemented to achieve desired goals.  They are used by developers, by staff, by elected and appointed officials, by departments and by citizens for a variety of planning purposes.  A public process is followed to gather input from the community as master plans are assembled, thus assuring representation of the desires of the people of Eagle County to the greatest degree possible.

There is a single Eagle County Comprehensive Master Plan, but there are also other plans that address trails, open space, watersheds, housing, the airport, etc.  Most plans have a 10 to 15 year horizon.  The Community Development Department is often engaged updating plans though a public process to keep them as current as possible.  Each municipality also has a Master Plan to provide direction within its incorporated boundary.  The location of a project or a land use application within the county determines which of the plans should be reviewed for master plan conformance. 

Other Master Plans:

• Airport Master Plan
• Eagle County Comprehensive Housing Plan 
• Eagle River Watershed Plan
• ECO Trails Plan
• Open Space Master Plan

Please note some of the master plans are not available at this time. Please contact Community Development for more information.   
                    

The latest update to the Eagle County Comprehensive Plan was adopted by the Eagle County Planning Commission on December 7, 2005.  It provides a thorough discussion of planning topics and concerns, following a format of Goals and Policies, and includes long lists of possible implementation strategies at the end of each chapter.  When accessed by computer, the document provides considerable utility through the use of internal and external links, which allow the reader to move about quickly within the document, and also to access planning or data related web sites.  All table of content items, for example, are internally linked.  Clicking on any blue underlined text in the document will move the reader quickly to that source of information.

Eagle County Comprehensive Plan:

The 2005 Eagle County Comprehensive Plan is available for purchase at the Community Development Office:
     $35 for a printed copy
     $5 for a copy on CD
     FREE to download below 

In order to view the Comprehensive Plan documents in the PDF format you will need a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader.  This is a free software application available for download. Once you've installed the program you can download, view and print the documents below.  Recommend high-speed Internet access due to large file size.

Eagle County is not responsible for the content or periodic updating of information found on external web pages. 

For for further information, please call Cliff Simonton, Senior Planner, at 970-328-8751 or Kris Aoki, Planner, at 970-328-8752 or send an email to compplan@eaglecounty.us