Infrastructure Assessment & PlanningToolkit

The St. Clair County Infrastructure Assessment and Planning

Toolkit to Protect County Water Resources provides tools for

proactive planning to help ensure that the County’s communities

are better equipped to direct growth to appropriate locations. In

planning for growth, the Toolkit focuses on the orderly and

efficient provision of water and wastewater systems and private

utilities such as electric, gas, and telecommunications. At the

same time, it seeks to enhance local capability to protect the

sensitive environmental areas, coastal/riparian ecosystems,

surface water and groundwater resources that make St. Clair

County an attractive place to live, work, and visit. The Toolkit

also assesses the fiscal impacts of infrastructure planning

decisions, and their intended and unintended consequences.

Tools in this document promote regional planning to foster

intergovernmental cooperation on infrastructure and

public/private cooperation.