This colorful character areas map from Brooklet's new Comprehensive Plan doesn't represent the city's land use zoning, but it could help guide a revision. The full color-coding, from the dotted pale-blue Gateway Corridor along U.S. Highway 80 to the darker blue Downtown and a potential red-crosshatched annexation area on the lower right, is explained in the story. / Courtesy of Brooklet city government After planning that started more than a year ago in cooperation with the Coastal Regional Commission and with input from local “stakeholders,” Brooklet officially has a new comprehensive plan, its first developed independently from the county. Next, the city government of this growing town of at least 2,295 residents and 952 housing units – facts you can find among others in the spiral-bound copies of Brooklet Comprehensive Plan 2025 – will launch into an overhaul of its Zoning Ordinance, also with contracted assistance from the CRC. A CRC consultant is scheduled to report to Brooklet’s appointed Planning and Zoning Commission during its 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, regular public meeting at City Hall as they start the zoning update process. But to reach more Brooklet res
