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    Network Community Program

    The Community Growth Institute’s Network Community program allows even the smallest and most rural community access to the highest quality professional planning assistance available.  Members of CGI’s Network Community program receive customized planning and support from a highly-regarded team of professional planners.

    By pooling a number of smaller communities with limited, but important, planning needs into a network, we are able to provide professional planning assistance at a cost that is affordable, predictable and manageable.  In addition to reduced-rate access to our professional staff, the CGI Network Community program is designed to provide a number of other benefits to help growing communities maintain a proactive approach to planning and zoning. 

    Three Network Community levels exist, with additional service options available for communities within a CGI service area.

     

     

    Network

    Level 1

    Network

    Level 2

    Network

    Level 3

    Community Website[1]

    2 pages

    5 pages

    9 pages

    Custom Domain Registration[2]

    Included

    Included

    Included

    Guaranteed Phone Assistance[3]

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Guaranteed email/messenger Assistance[4]

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Customized Network Portfolio of Planning and Zoning Information[5]

    Included for each Public Official

    Included for each Public Official

    Included for each Public Official

    Annual updates of Network Portfolio to reflect changes in state and federal law[6]

    Included

    Included

    Included

    CGI Network Connection newsletter[7]

    Included for each Public Official

    Included for each Public Official

    Included for each Public Official

    Monthly professional planning assistance from CGI Planning Team[8]

    None included

    5 hours per month included

    10 hours per month included

    Banking of planning assistance hours

    N/A

    Up to 10 hours

    Up to 20 hours

    Discount on additional planning assistance from CGI Planning Team[9]

    15%

    15%

    15%

    Discount on training and education offerings from the Community Growth Institute

    15%

    15%

    15%

    Monthly Fee[10]

    $200

    $550

    $900

    Startup Fee

    $500

    $500

    $500



    [1] Content is generated and maintained by CGI Staff, with ongoing community coordination.

    [2] Community Growth Institute will obtain the domain, which will forward to the community website.

    [3] Phone assistance is exclusively for public officials, including elected, appointed and staff.  A response from the CGI Planning Team is guaranteed within one business day.

    [4] Email and messenger assistance is exclusively for public officials, including elected, appointed and staff.  A response from the CGI Planning Team is guaranteed within one business day.

    [5] The Network Portfolio will include all available planning documents, including the comprehensive plan, zoning ordinance, subdivision ordinance, future land use map, zoning map, forms, policies and procedures and other planning materials relevant to the community.

    [6] The documents in the Network Portfolio will be maintained in digital format, when available.

    [7] The Network Connection newsletter contains valuable and timely information on planning topics, legislative changes, model ordinance language and planning-related documents.

    [8] Includes working with the public on applications and planning-related issues, attendance at meetings, permit review, research, report writing and other planning and zoning functions.  In addition, for Level 2 and Level 3 Network Communities, Community Growth Institute will supply a projected work plan.

    [9] The discount is taken from the standard hourly rate for a member of the CGI Planning Team.

    [10] Network base services are invoiced biannually to correspond with the community’s levy receipts.


    Click here to download printable flyer on the Network Community Program.
     
     
         
     
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