Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

Ms. DennystaffIn community services, there are 13 new actions. Nineteen of the 86 total actions were updated. The Parks and Recreation Strategic Master Plan is currently underway and expected to be complete early next year. Willard Sherwood Community Center is at 50% design and land use applications are under staff review. The improvements at Old Town Hall and Old Town Square will begin this spring and the land acquisition for Fire Station 3 is complete. So this is the summary pulled from the annual report. 65 actions were identified as being led by planning. The majority of those are ongoing but 11 were identified with the timeframe of 2026, 3 in 2028, 2 in 2030 and none for 2035. 17 actions are not in progress, 15 of those are new.

includes the circulation study which is specific to Old Town but a part of the safety action plan so again expected to be complete mid-2026. The parking study in Old Town is underway and as of the TDM commitments for the Flatline University. They're required to do a survey and that survey is anticipated for this year. Moving to North Facts, 21 of the 45 total actions were updated. This includes partial funding for the North Facts East West Road. The Willowood Phase II application has been submitted and is under staff review and construction of the Warwick Avenue and Far Avenue pedestrian crossing is expected for this year. For Camp Washington, six of the 43 total This includes the pedestrian master plan, which is also part of that safety action plan to be complete mid next year.

This master plan will look at the locations that are identified through this small area plan for pedestrian improvements. Additionally, as I mentioned, the update to the transit development plan is underway, and this will also include looking at transit in Camp Washington. And then lastly, we now have Fairfax Circle. nine of the 56 actions had substantial status updates this includes that Nova parks will include invasive removal and their renovation of Gateway Park the city applied for a community flood preparedness fund grant that would allow us to conduct a flood study and similar to flats on University a TDM survey for Scout is anticipated for this year and this is the summary for the small area

Mr. Naptestaffproject as it has been going on for several years the Van Dyke Park master plan city city already put forth the effort of developing master plan for this park which included a lot of community engagement and the Planning has made previous recommendations of support and continue to support that going forward. This also includes a lot of transportation projects which as you know have a longer process in terms of developing designs and concepts and securing funding to make sure that we continue to move forward with those. Next recommendation was to continue to seek opportunities to utilize external funding sources including grants, partnerships, and foundations. And so a lot of the funding sources outside of the general fund in the capital improvement

Next item was to identify funding timelines that coincide with project schedules. This was looking at balancing the overall CIP requests or impacts on the general fund the five-year period of the CIP and distributing those funds so that they make sense with when products can actually be completed and then looking at Van Dyke Park again the Planning Commission said that while the Planning Commission continues to fully support implementation of the Van Dyke Park master plan as we discussed on the previous slide redistribution of funds to a more manageable project schedule would be supported this is going back to funds over the course of the five-year period and a recommendation from the chief financial officer as he presented this to you when you last met about

redistributing some of those funds particularly later in the CIP cycle for many of these projects the Van Dyke Park master plan implementation was one of these and while the Planning Commission continues to support that project as you have in the past the Planning Commission generally supported the idea of moving these funds because we are not at a point we would be ready to spend those within the earlier timeframe. And then lastly, the planning commission expressed general support for investments in the following types of projects. This includes actually the order that is shown in the resolution is public safety, schools, parks, pedestrian and bicycle safety, and environmental projects. So again, that is a summary of what was discussed