The comprehensive planning process involves an assessment of the Natural and human resources of an area. A comprehensive plan displays a practical and reasonable balance between land conservation and preservation and individual property owners rights to a reasonable return from their land. The comprehensive plan for Antrim Township and Greencastle Borough assumes that each viewpoint is a legitimate entity in the community.

The following objectives are formulated with the intention of balancing conservation and anticipated future growth in the Antrim - Greencastle community. A balance will hopefully maintain the unique small town rural flavor of this community while assuring a positive outlook for growth. The comprehensive plan hopes to ensure that:

1. Future residential, commercial and industrial development is concentrated in an orderly way in areas accessible to public sewer and public water.
2. The impact of new traffic is accounted for in consideration of site approval for new development.
3. The street and highway networks provide efficient circulation through and around the existing commercial centers of the community.
4. Provisions are made for a safe and reliable water supply for the current and anticipated populations.
5. Community facility planning becomes coordinated between the two communities in order to more efficiently serve the needs of an anticipated economically diversified population.
6. Future planning decisions take into consideration the increasing attractiveness of the region for commercial and residential development spreading outward from the metropolitan areas of Washington and Baltimore.
7. The community develops and maintains a land management data base to help in a coordinated governmental approach to land regulation and development in the area.
8. The community manages open space and agricultural land with the intention of preserving these essential ingredients that make up the rural nature of the area.
9. Future housing development meets the varied needs, preferences and income of the existing and future residents of the community.
10. The residential population has access to the full range of needed goods and services provided by the areas commercial establishments.
11. Implementation strategies such as zoning and subdivision regulations insure that future growth occurs in areas where the positive features of the development far outweigh the negative features.