Comprehensive Plan
Comprehensive Plan Update
Since early 2025, Hanover Park has been working to update its comprehensive plan, which will serve to guide the growth and development of the Village over the next 10 - 25 years. Over an estimated 15-month period, the updated comprehensive plan will be carefully crafted through a series of phases. These phases include an existing conditions assessment, visioning and key recommendations, and a final comprehensive plan accompanied by subarea plans throughout the community. Public engagement has been and continues to be an instrumental component of the comprehensive plan update. Public workshops, stakeholder interviews, focus groups, a community kick-off event, visioning workshop, interactive mapping, and online questionnaires have given Hanover Park residents several opportunities to express existing community concerns and to provide suggestions for the Village's future.
Houseal Lavigne, the consultants chosen to update the Comprehensive Plan, have created a public website where the public can provide feedback and see the status of the project.
Comprehensive Plan Project Website
Long-Range Land Use Planning
The Comprehensive Plan provides the long-range goals for land use and community facilities for the entire Village. It provides Village officials with a set of policies and principles to be implemented through municipal regulations and through the development approval process. While the Comprehensive Plan reflects many existing land uses, it also designates many of the remaining vacant portions of the Village for commercial and business park uses.
The current Comprehensive Plan was adopted in 1998 and updated in 2010 after extensive community input which included a community survey completed by Village residents, interviews of influential community stakeholders, public forums, a public hearing, and the ongoing guidance of the Village's Development Commission. In 2012 the Village Board adopted a Sub-Area Plan for the Village Center, which incorporates Transit Oriented Development (TOD) principle. The TOD plan replaced the Village Center portion of Chapter 5 in the 2010 Comprehensive Plan. In 2017 Long Range Planning included completion of the Homes for a Changing Region study and in-depth planning for the Village Center.