Indiana Code

Ind. Code § 36-7-4-503 (2026)

Comprehensive plan; additional contents

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Sec. 503. A comprehensive plan may, in addition to the elements required by section 502 of this chapter, include the following:

(1) Surveys and studies of current conditions and probable future growth within the jurisdiction and adjoining jurisdictions.

(2) Maps, plats, charts, and descriptive material presenting basic information, locations, extent, and character of any of the following:

(A) History, population, and physical site conditions.

(B) Land use, including the height, area, bulk, location, and use of private and public structures and premises.

(D) Community centers and neighborhood units.

(E) Areas needing redevelopment and conservation.

(F) Public ways, including bridges, viaducts, subways, parkways, and other public places.

(G) Sewers, sanitation, and drainage, including handling, treatment, and disposal of excess drainage waters, sewage, garbage, refuse, and other wastes.

(H) Air, land, and water pollution.

(I) Flood control and irrigation.

(J) Public and private utilities, such as water, light, heat, communication, and other services.

(K) Transportation, including rail, bus, truck, air and water transport, and their terminal facilities.

(L) Local mass transit, including taxicabs, buses, and street, elevated, or underground railways.

(M) Parks and recreation, including parks, playgrounds, reservations, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public places of a recreational nature.

(N) Public buildings and institutions, including governmental administration and service buildings, hospitals, infirmaries, clinics, penal and correctional institutions, and other civic and social service buildings.

(O) Education, including location and extent of schools and postsecondary educational institutions.

(P) Land utilization, including agriculture, forests, and other uses.

(Q) Conservation of energy, water, soil, and agricultural and mineral resources.

(R) Any other factors that are a part of the physical, economic, or social situation within the jurisdiction.

(3) Reports, maps, charts, and recommendations setting forth plans and policies for the development, redevelopment, improvement, extension, and revision of the subjects and physical situations (set out in subdivision (2) of this section) of the jurisdiction so as to substantially accomplish the purposes of this chapter.

(4) A short and long range development program of public works projects for the purpose of stabilizing industry and employment and for the purpose of eliminating unplanned, unsightly, untimely, and extravagant projects.

(5) A short and long range capital improvements program of governmental expenditures so that the development policies established in the comprehensive plan can be carried out and kept up-to-date for all separate taxing districts within the jurisdiction to assure efficient and economic use of public funds.

(6) A short and long range plan for the location, general design, and assignment of priority for construction of thoroughfares in the jurisdiction for the purpose of providing a system of major public ways that allows effective vehicular movement, encourages effective use of land, and makes economic use of public funds.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-7-4-503; 18-7-4-37; 18-7-5-37.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.23. Amended by Acts 1981, P.L.310, SEC.28; P.L.335-1985, SEC.5; P.L.220-1986, SEC.9; P.L.185-2005, SEC.6; P.L.2-2007, SEC.386.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1988–2012 · leading case: Bd. of Com'rs of LaPorte Cnty. v. Town & Country Utils., 791 N.E.2d 249 (Ind. Ct. App. 2003).

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Bd. of Com'rs of LaPorte Cnty. v. Town & Country Utils., 791 N.E.2d 249 (Ind. Ct. App. 2003). · cites it 2× “Code § 86-1-3-4, but from the planning and zoning statutes, such as Ind.Code §§ 36-7-4-503 and 36-7-4-601(b).”

Pro-Eco, Inc. v. Bd. of Commissioners of Jay Cnty., Indiana, 956 F.2d 635 (7th Cir. 1992). “2d at 686 (noting that the zoning statutes, such as Ind.Code Ann. §§ 36-7-4-503 (West Supp. 1991) and 36-7-4-601(b) (West Supp.”

Irving Materials, Inc. v. Bd. of Commissioners of Johnson Cnty., 683 N.E.2d 260 (Ind. Ct. App. 1997). · cites it 2× “Ind.Code § 36-7-4-503(2)(I). The county’s legislative body, the Board of Commissioners of Johnson County in this case, “shall act” to secure safety from flood when it adopts a zoning ordinance.”

City of Anderson v. Irving Materials, Inc., 530 N.E.2d 730 (Ind. 1988). · cites it 2× “Ind.Code § 36-7-4-503. The plan commission prepares the plan, holds a public hearing on it, and proposes an ordinance to enforce the plan.”

Town of Zionsville, Indiana & Zionsville Plan Comm'n v. Hamilton Cnty. Airport Auth., 970 N.E.2d 185 (Ind. Ct. App. 2012). · cites it 2× “(quoting Ind.Code § 36-7-4-503(2)(N)). This plan is implemented through local zoning ordinances.”

— Ind. Code § 36-7-4-503(2)(I) — 1 case

Irving Materials, Inc. v. Bd. of Commissioners of Johnson Cnty., 683 N.E.2d 260 (Ind. Ct. App. 1997). “Ind.Code § 36-7-4-503(2)(I). The county’s legislative body, the Board of Commissioners of Johnson County in this case, “shall act” to secure safety from flood when it adopts a zoning ordinance.”

— Ind. Code § 36-7-4-503(2)(N) — 1 case

Town of Zionsville, Indiana & Zionsville Plan Comm'n v. Hamilton Cnty. Airport Auth., 970 N.E.2d 185 (Ind. Ct. App. 2012). “(quoting Ind.Code § 36-7-4-503(2)(N)). This plan is implemented through local zoning ordinances.”

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