Master Plan Implementation Committee (MPIC)

The Town of Walpole Planning Board adopted the Walpole Master Plan/and EO 418 Community Development Plan in 2004.  The Master Plan was created pursuant to statute and Executive Order 418.  The Plan was developed under the guidance of the Planning Board, with the assistance of Community Design Partnership and other private entities.  The efforts to create and adopt the plan took place over a roughly two-year period, from 2002 to 2004.  In this process, public input was strongly solicited through the medium of neighborhood and town-wide meetings, as well as public surveys.  The intent for the Plan is to guide the Town of Walpole, through its various agencies, with the process to carry out the elements contained within the Plan over the twenty-year time horizon spanning the period 2004 to 2024.
 
The Master Plan calls for the creation of an Implementation Committee, whose mission is to steward the plan and ensure that the elements of the plan are properly addressed and, otherwise, coordinated.  The role of the Master Plan Implementation Committee (MPIC) is to see to it that balance and coordination are achieved between the various elements of the plan, in order that Walpole develops as a viable community environmentally, recreationally, educationally, and commercially well into the 21st Century.  In this role, the MPIC is an advisory body, functioning as a subcommittee of the Planning Board. 

The MPIC meets monthly, generally on the second Tuesday of each month in Town Hall, Room 116, or as otherwise posted.  The purpose of the meetings is to discuss and guide the means by which the Master Plan’s goals and objectives can best be achieved and the order in which the Plan’s elements should be addressed, to ensure that the goals and objectives of the Plan come to fruition through current and future Town activities.  Under the guidance of the Committee, through working with various Town agencies, several functional area objectives in economic development, housing, historical preservation, and land use that were listed as short term to mid term implementation activities in the Master Plan have been achieved over the past few years, for further implementation by various Town agencies.  Further information on achievements in these implementation activities may be found in the Five-Year Update Report, for which a link is provided above.   

In July 2010 the Master Plan Implementation Committee’s Charter and Bylaws were amended to include representative members of the School Committee and the Finance Committee, and a School Committee member was appointed to the MPIC.  The resulting current membership of the MPIC as of February 2011 is as follows:
               
Members appointed by Town Boards/Commissions:

Town Staff, as ex-officio, non-voting members:

For questions or further information about the MPIC, please contact Stepahnie Mercandetti at (508) 660-7352 or email her at