Welcome to the Comprehensive Plan webpage!

The City of Bridgeport is updating the 2019 Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Plan serves as the long-range planning document guiding the future growth and development of the City and is required by the West Virginia State Code to be updated every five years. The State Code establishes the scope and content requirements for comprehensive plans; requiring that they consider population, utilities, public services, transportation, environment, land uses, and related growth factors as the plan is developed. Comprehensive plans include a statement of goals and objectives for the City’s future growth and an action plan and timeline on how to achieve the goals and objectives.

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Review the Adopted Comprehensive Plan

Planning Process

The City’s Comprehensive Plan was updated between July 2024 and January 2026. The process was guided by a Comprehensive Plan Committee and included background research, stakeholder interviews, committee meetings, public involvement, and related steps prior to developing the draft plan. As the project was ongoing, information related to the plan and opportunities to get involved were shared on this webpage. If you have any questions or comments, you can share them at the link below.

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Get Involved

A public drop-in meeting was held to review the draft plan on Tuesday, September 30th 2025. Thank you to all of the attendees who came out to review the draft plan and share feedback. The Planning Commission held a public hearing to review the draft Plan on the same date and subsequently recommended its approval. City Council was presented the Planning Commission's recommendation to update the City's Comprehensive Plan on November 10, 2025 and Council considered the draft Plan again on Monday, December 1, 2025. The Council officially adopted the Comprehensive Plan on January 12, 2026.

View the Planning Commission Presentation

Questions? Comments?

If you have any questions or comments about Bridgeport's draft Comprehensive Plan, you can submit them via the link below.

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View the Adopted Plan

Over the course of the 2024 and 2025, a number of meetings were held with the Comprehensive Plan Committee. In addition to this, a set of community drop-in meetings were held at the Citynet Center on September 30 and October 1, 2024. Thank you to all who stopped by! Additional thanks to the many residents who participated in the online community survey, which was availble throughout the month of October 2024. Following this first round of public input meetings and community survey, the draft plan was developed. An additional round of meetings, including adoption meetings with the Planning Commission and Council were held in late 2025. The final Comprehensive Plan can be viewed at the link below.

View the Adopted Plan