The current 1998 Granville Comprehensive Plan was a strategic update to the 1990 Comprehensive Plan in response to the concerns of the residents of Granville. 

The Plan is designed to achieve the following goals:

• Protect the community from the strip shopping centers, malls, large free-standing retailers and rose of fast-food restaurants that typify urban sprawl and make any town look like every other town,
• Protect open space and preserve working farm land,
• Provide guidelines that diminish the threat that annexation of Township land poses to the school system and open space.

To attain these goals, the Review Committee updated the 1990 Comprehensive Plan to more clearly delineate the desited character of new commercial and residential development.  A new land use category was also created to serve as a transition between the agricultural land of the Township and high-density neighboring municipalities.  In addition, density incentives were included to encourage landowners to meet the new, higheer standards.

These recommendations will enable the citizens of Granville to realize their vision for the future of the community and enhance property values, the appearance of Granville and the quality of life it offers.

1998 Comprehensive Plan                 adopted May 7, 1999

2001 Comprehensive Plan Update     adopted by the Village only April 7, 2004