IN PERSON AT AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ZOOM

Everyone who registers will receive a link to ZOOM in their email on the morning of the class, and may attend either in-person or by ZOOM.

How to get from where your community is to where you want it to be. The City of Auburn is in the process of completing a Comprehensive Plan to guide the City’s development for the next ten years. This class will discuss what comprehensive municipal planning is and why it is important to the future of a community and its citizens, how the public can participate in the planning process, and the legal importance of a comprehensive plan. Good planning is an essential tool for creating a vision for the future its citizens want for their community and identifying the actions needed to achieve it. Learn how to help your community realize the future it wants. 

John J Cleveland is the chairman of Auburn’s 2026 Comprehensive Planning Committee. He brings nearly 20 years of public service as a City Councilor and Mayor of Auburn, and State Senator and 38 years of professional experience as a planning and development consultant helping communities achieve their goals of improving their communities. John is a native of Lewiston-Auburn, and he and his wife Debora raised two adult sons here and have two grandchildren.