How should Shelbyville manage orderly, long-term growth and development? Are community services and facilities adequate to serve current and future populations? Where should future residential, commercial, or industrial development locate? Are there sensitive, natural features within Shelbyville that need to be protected or enhanced? These are just some of the issues addressed in the Shelbyville Comprehensive Plan.

The act of planning reflects the City’s fundamental desire for a better future. By creating the Comprehensive Plan, the City of Shelbyville recognizes the strategic advantage of anticipating change, identifying problems and solutions, and capitalizing on opportunities. Ultimately, the Comprehensive Plan seeks to make the most efficient use of the land, as well as investments in utilities, public services, streets, school buildings, and public parks. In addition to addressing these issues, Shelbyville must balance the impacts of the built environment with the protection and enhancement of the natural landscape and environment.

The Shelbyville Comprehensive Plan has been refined over time, having been subjected to formal review and revision from time-to-time. Each time the plan was revised new information was available, new development had occurred, new trends emerged, new perspectives were offered, the socioeconomic and economic climate had changed, and different municipal resources existed. Each time the general public and stakeholders were invited to participate and a committee of diverse citizens and leaders were assembled to guide improvements to the document.

This Comprehensive Plan reflects the current and anticipated needs of Shelbyville, having been last revised in 2010. It is the City’s intent to continue to revisit and revise the Comprehensive Plan, generally every five years, to keep the content relevant and to engage in dialog about the future of the City of Shelbyville. In this way, the Comprehensive Plan will remain a relevant guide to the future growth and development of Shelbyville.

This plan document was created in response to emerging development activity around the Fairland Exit of Interstate 74 in Shelbyville, Indiana. The document’s intent is to guide the planning activities of the City of Shelbyville’s Plan Commission and City Council in the future as they seek to manage this emerging development activity and to assist the overall real estate community in understanding the potential for creating a high quality area that benefits the City of Shelbyville and Shelby County.

The Small Area Planning process was utilized to review and analyize this area in more detail than what was conducted in the general Comprehensive Planning process. 

New Small Area Plan Draft - Fairland Road and I-74 area