A Gorham committee last month wrapped up its review of the town’s proposed draft of the comprehensive plan that now will go to a public hearing next week.

The Comprehensive Plan Committee, which included several residents appointed to the panel, met four times and is recommending multiple changes to details in the town’s proposed version of an update of the comprehensive plan.

“Our business is done and we’ll convene on Tuesday, Aug. 23,” Kathy Garrard, committee chairwoman said Tuesday about its public hearing date.

The meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. in the Gorham Municipal Center, 75 South St. The draft can be viewed by visiting www.gorham-me.org and click on Comprehensive Plan Update at top of the page.

Committee talk in a July 19 meeting included a lengthy discussion about re-wording the plan’s vision statement.

“The vision for Gorham is a neighborly community and the most desireable place in Maine to live, raise a family, or build a business in a healthy robust and aesthetic pleasing environment,” the committee chose for wording in a vision statement.

The town’s comprehensive plan is more than 20 years old. It was adopted in 1993 and amended in 1994, Town Manager David Cole said.

Few Gorham residents voiced interest during the committee’s review.

Gorham’s Planning Department, aided by consultant Mark Eyerman of Planning Decisions in Portland, prepared the initial draft update in 2013 and a revised plan was handed to the Town Council in April.

Changes recommended by the Comprehensive Plan Committee to the draft will require approval by the Town Council.

The comprehensive plan is the document that will shape the future look of the town for up to the next two decades, but town residents have displayed little interest.

The committee reviewed public comments and results of a survey posted on the town website and Facebook as of July 18. Public response to the brief survey drew only six completions; Community Vision (chapter 4), 4 responses; Community Goals & Policies (Chapter 5), 2; Land Use (Chapter 6), 2; and Regional Coordination (Chapter 7), 2.

“It’s disappointing there’s so few responses,” Garrard said pointing to a town population of about 17,000.

Only two members of the public attended the July 19 meeting and no one spoke during the public comment period.