Residents challenge Salem’s early plans for city’s future

Salem’s comprehensive plan will soon get overhauled for the first time since its creation in the 1970s, but the work is already off to a rocky start.

The comprehensive plan guides everything from where homes can be built to how parks are managed. It has been updated in piecemeal over the years, but last year the city made its rebuild a priority.

Salem residents were told the overhaul was coming. They didn’t know two new…