2023 Delaware Code › Title 9 - Counties › Chapter 49. ZONING › Subchapter II. The Quality of Life Act › § 4958. Evaluation and appraisal of comprehensive plan.

§ 4958. Evaluation and appraisal of comprehensive plan.
(a) The comprehensive plan or amendments or revisions thereto shall be submitted to the Governor or designee at such time as the plan is made available for public review. The County shall provide sufficient copies for review by the Cabinet Committee on State Planning Issues. Within 30 days of plan submission, the Cabinet Committee on State Planning Issues shall conduct a public meeting, at which time the County shall make a presentation of the plan and its underlying goals and development policies. Following the public meeting the plan shall be subject to the state review and certification process set forth in § 9103 of Title 29.
(b) The State shall not be obligated to provide state financial assistance or infrastructure improvements to support land use or development actions by the county where the County's adopted comprehensive plan or portions thereof are determined to be substantially inconsistent with State development policies.
(c) The planning programs shall be a continuous and ongoing process. The local planning agency shall prepare a report on the progress of implementing the comprehensive plan, which shall be sent to the Office of State Planning Coordination each year after adoption of the comprehensive plan. The report shall be due annually no later than on each anniversary of the effective date of the most recently adopted comprehensive plan or plan update until January 1, 2012, and annually no later than July 1 each year thereafter starting on July 1, 2012. The Cabinet Committee shall forward the report to the Office of State Planning Coordination, which will evaluate it in the context of state goals, policies and strategies, and the plans of other jurisdictions. The Office of State Planning Coordination will integrate the information, land use trends, and changing conditions found in the County's report into the annual report of the Cabinet Committee, which is to be prepared as specified in § 9101(d), Title 29. It is the intent of this subchapter that periodic updates on amendments to and the implementation of adopted comprehensive plans be communicated through the evaluation and appraisal reports to ascertain trends, monitor implementation and foster ongoing coordination.
(d) The report shall present an assessment and evaluation of the success or failure of the comprehensive plan or element or portion thereof, and shall contain appropriate statements (using words, maps, illustrations or other forms) related to:
(1) The major problems of development, physical deterioration and the location of land uses and the social and economic effects of such uses in the area.
(2) The condition of each element in the comprehensive plan at the time of adoption and at date of report.
(3) The comprehensive plan objectives as compared with actual results at date of report.
(4) The extent to which unanticipated and unforeseen problems and opportunities occurred between date of adoption and date of report.
(e) The report shall include reformulated objectives, policies and standards in the comprehensive plan or elements or portions thereof.
(f) The Cabinet Committee may prescribe a format and guidelines for the preparation of the County's report. Should the Cabinet Committee elect to do so, the Office of State Planning Coordination shall assist the Committee in the development and administration of such guidelines.
66 Del. Laws, c. 207, §  1;  70 Del. Laws, c. 270, §§  35, 37-39;  73 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  3;  74 Del. Laws, c. 186, §§  8, 10, 11;  78 Del. Laws, c. 92, §§  11-14;