A VISION

To guide the future development of the Town of Bell

Bell is envisioned to remain a small town, striving to grow sensibly into a community that remembers its roots and builds a wise future by:

• Creating a land use pattern that provides for modest growth, without losing the identity, physical attributes, and social fabric of a small, well knit community;

• Accommodates an increase in vehicular traffic that is balanced by a system of pedestrian walkways to encourage exercise, informal social interaction, and provides for alternative modes of transportation;

• Retains trees for their ecological value, natural, and scenic beauty; to enhance walk ability and civic pride; and to preserve natures authenticity;

• Provides community facilities that service and support small scale residential, commercial, office, light industry, and mixed use developments consistent with this vision;

• Encourages a compact downtown, centered at the intersection of US 129/CR342, which incorporates sidewalks, plazas, landscaped areas that are pedestrian friendly thereby encouraging shopping, dining, strolling, casual conversation, and outdoor community events;

• Fosters a town design with the heart of which is a pedestrian friendly town central, that uses tree corridors, and landscaped walkways to interconnect gateways at the town entrances with landmark historic structures, parks, and places of pedestrian activity and town central;

• Creates a balanced natural and built environment where structures are setback from roadways to allow landscaped buffers and limited to two stories in height, free standing signs are restricted in size, property maintenance, landscaping, and open space requirements are met by all development according to guidelines adopted as part of the Bell Land Development Regulations;

• Fosters education in the present, past, and future by supporting our schools as they are now, and by encouraging education and educational facilities for all ages, as well as preserving our historic educational structures.