BREWER – Just seven years after the community finished updating its comprehensive plan, it is getting ready to begin the overhaul process again.

An ad hoc committee charged with updating the city’s comprehensive plan was appointed during a City Council meeting this week.

The idea is to revise the plan to reflect recent and anticipated developments.

A great deal has changed here during the past few years.

Perhaps the most dramatic change has been in the Wilson Street commercial corridor, where a Wal-Mart Supercenter and an Eastern Maine Healthcare expansion are under way and where spinoff development is beginning to occur.

Another change is that the city has a strategy for redeveloping its waterfront. The plan, developed by a citizen-led advisory committee and a consortium of consultants, was one of the outcomes of the current comprehensive plan.

Named to the ad hoc committee Tuesday night were planning board members Joseph Hayes and Allen Campbell, city planner Linda Johns, Code Enforcement Officer David Russell, technology coordinator Mary Stuart, Development Director Drew Sachs, Fire Chief Richard Bronson, Assistant City Manager Howard Kroll, Mayor Michael Celli and Deputy Mayor Donna Thornton.

In other appointments and personnel matters Tuesday:

. Councilor Manley DeBeck Jr. was designated Brewer’s representative on the Penobscot Budget Committee. In addition, DeBeck recently was elected president of the Penobscot Valley Council of Governments board.

. City councilors confirmed two of City Manager Stephen Bost’s recent appointees. David Cote has been named director of public works and Frank Higgins, director of the engineering department.

. Brewer Republican Kim Gray and Democrat Earl Sherwood were named to the voter registration appeals board.