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2030 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2012 Comprehensive Plan Town of Smithville, Mississippi Gregg Kennedy, Mayor Board of Aldermen: Planning Commission: Johnny Snow, Deputy Mayor Jill Dabbs Ruth Whitehead Renee Seales Joyce Avery Vicki Simmons Hansel Hood Carol Herren Jimmy Dabbs W. D. Holcomb J. W. Vann Town Clerk: Ann Seales Earl Wayne Cowley Funded by: Appalachian Regional Council Plan Developed by: Table of Contents Chapters and Sections Page Chapter One: Introduction and Community Profile 1 Section 1 Purpose 1 Section 2 Authority 1 Section 3 Location of Smithville and Study Area 2 Section 4 History of Smithville and Monroe County 2 Section 5 Planning Process 3 Section 6 Integration of other Plans, Studies and Surveys 3 Section 7 Sustainable Redevelopment in Smithville 4 Section 8 Population and Housing 5 Section 9 Recent Development 6 Section 10 Other Demographic Information 6 Section 11 Plan Organization 6 Chapter Two: Goals and Objective 7 Section 1 General Description 7 Section 2 Land Use and Development 8 Section 3 Transportation--Streets, Multi-Use Trails and Sidewalks 10 Section 4 Community Services and Facilities 11 Section 5 Recreational Facilities 12 Chapter Three: Land Use and Development 13 Section 1 General Description 13 Section 2 Prior and Existing Uses of Land 13 Section 3 Residential Issues and Opportunities 17 Section 4 Commercial Issues and Opportunities 18 Smithville, Mississippi Page i Comprehensive Plan Table of Contents Section 5 Recreational/Open Space Issues and Opportunities 19 Section 6 Economic Development and Future Growth 20 Section 7 Future Land Use Plan 22 Section 8 Description of Future Land Use Categories 23 Chapter Four: Transportation 31 Section 1 General 31 Section 2 Functional Classification of Roadways 31 Section 3 Performance Criteria 32 Section 4 Existing and Proposed Street System in Smithville 32 Section 5 The Four “Cs”—Coordination, Connectivity, Complete 34 Streets and Traffic Calming Section 6 Transportation Issues and Opportunities 36 Chapter Five: Community Facilities and Services 41 Section 1 General Description 41 Section 2 Water System 41 Section 3 Sanitary Sewer System 42 Section 4 Stormwater Management System 42 Section 5 Solid Waste and Recycling 45 Section 6 Communications Facilities 45 Section 7 Municipal Offices 46 Section 8 Smithville Volunteer Fire Department 46 Section 9 Police Department 46 Section 10 Schools and Educational Facilities 46 Section 11 Parks and Recreation Facilities 48 Smithville, Mississippi Page ii Comprehensive Plan Table of Contents Chapters and Sections Page Section 12 Health and Medical Facilities 48 Section 13 Community Center and Church Related Facilities 49 Section 14 Community Services and Facilities Issues and 49 Opportunities Acknowledgements and Sources 52 Tables Table No. 1 Demographic Characteristics 5 Table No. 2 Comparison of Future Land Use Plan and Zoning 22 Ordinance Table No. 3 Recap of Land Use and Development Action and 29 Projects Table No. 4 Roadway and Pavement Widths 31 Table No. 5 Recap of Transportation Actions and Projects 40 Table No. 6 Recap of Community Facilities Actions and Projects 51 Maps Map No. 1 Pre-Tornado Existing Land Use Map 15 Map No. 2 Existing Land Use Map 16 Map No. 3 Proposed Annexation Map 21 Map No. 4 Future Land Use Map 24 Map No. 5 Functional Classification Map 33 Map No. 6 Multi-Use Trails and Pedestrian Infrastructure Map 39 Map No. 7 Water Infrastructure Map 43 Map No. 8: Sanitary Sewer Infrastructure Map 44 Smithville, Mississippi Page iii Comprehensive Plan Chapter One: Introduction and Community Profile Section 1: Purpose The purpose of the Town of Smithville Mississippi Code of 1972 —Section 17-1-1 Definitions Comprehensive Plan is to establish long- "Comprehensive plan," a statement of public policy for the physical development of the entire range policies and goals that guide overall municipality or county adopted by resolution of the governing body, consisting of the following physical growth and future development in a elements at a minimum: coordinated and unified manner. As a In addition, all land development regulations enacted or amended will be consistent with the statement of long-range general policies, the plan. Land development regulations existing at the time of adoption of the plan which are not plan expresses Smithville’s desire to affect consistent with the 2006 Comprehensive Plan Update will be amended so as to be consistent. the physical form of its destiny in order to i. Goals and objectives for the long-range [twenty (20) to twenty-five (25) years] preserve, promote, protect and improve the development of the county or municipality. Required goals and objectives shall address, at a minimum, residential, commercial and industrial development; parks, open space and public health, safety, comfort, good order recreation; street or road improvements; public schools and community facilities. and appearance within its jurisdiction. ii. A land use plan which designates, in map or policy form, the proposed general distribution Long-range planning in Smithville is in large and extent of the uses of land for residences, commerce, industry, recreation and open space, public/quasi-public facilities and lands. Background information shall be provided measure a result of the F-5 tornado that concerning the specific meaning of land use categories depicted in the plan in terms of the occurred on April 27, 2011, causing a following: residential densities; intensity of commercial uses; industrial and public/quasi- significant loss of life and destroying the public uses; and any other information needed to adequately define the meaning of such downtown commercial area and over 100 land use codes. Projections of population and economic growth for the area encompassed by the plan may be the basis for zoning. homes. The resilient residents of Smithville iii. A transportation plan depicting in map form the proposed functional classifications for all initiated action that would help them rebuild existing and proposed streets, roads and highways for the area encompassed by the land use and improve their town including plan and for the same time period as that covered by the land use plan. Functional preparation of this plan. Planning efforts classifications shall consist of arterial, collector and local streets, roads and highways, and prior to the Comprehensive Plan are itemized these classifications shall be defined on the plan as to minimum right-of-way and surface width requirements; these requirements shall be based upon traffic projections. All other in Section 6 on Page 3. forms of transportation pertinent to the local jurisdiction shall be addressed as appropriate. The transportation plan shall be a basis for a capital improvements program. Section 2: Authority iv. A community facilities plan as a basis for a capital improvements program including, but not limited to, the following: housing; schools; parks and recreation; public buildings and The Town of Smithville exercises authority facilities; and utilities and drainage. granted by the state under Title 17, Chapter Smithville, Mississippi Page 1 Comprehensive Plan 1, of the Mississippi Code of 1972, as Section 4: History of Monroe County was separated from the amended, for the total incorporated area Smithville and Monroe County remainder of the state by Chickasaw and under its jurisdiction, in the The Smithville community began on Choctaw territories from Cotton Gin Port interpretation, administration and December 3, 1836, when Col Chubby, a (an early settlement) to Walnut Hills evaluation of the comprehensive plan. Chickasaw Indian who also co-signed the (Vicksburg). Prior to the formation of Consistent with Title 17, Chapter 1, all Treaty of Pontotoc, sold Section 6, the county the Chickasaws ceded their land development within the Township 12S, Range 9E to James D. lands to the Federal government and a incorporated area of Smithville will be Couch. Four years later William Smith few years later, the first white settlement consistent with the adopted purchased land at this site and built a in the county formed across the comprehensive plan. log house and store. The nearby Tombigbee River from a Chickasaw village which was located on the hill Section 3: Location of Tombigbee River was the major above a 1736 French fort. The new Smithville and Study Area transportation and communication route and the Smithville Landing made the community became known as Cotton Gin Smithville, Mississippi, is located in the river accessible to settlers in the area. Port, which is now extinct. In the early extreme northern-central region of 1830’s the legislature added all of the Monroe County which is located in The Town of Smithville was chartered in Chickasaw territories making Monroe northeast Mississippi. The county 1845 and a post office was opened on County the largest in the state at that borders Alabama on the east, Itawamba the site on June 8th of that year. time. and Lee Counties on the north, Lowndes Smithville and Aberdeen are the only County on the south, and Chickasaw surviving antebellum municipalities in County on the west. Smithville is Monroe County. approximately seven miles north of Monroe County, named for President Amory, Mississippi, and approximately James Monroe, was the first county in 15 miles south of Fulton, Mississippi, north Mississippi and one of the oldest the home of Itawamba Community of Mississippi’s 82 counties. It was College. It is 35 miles southeast of formed in 1821 and was originally Tupelo, Mississippi, an important