Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session
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Update and Discussion of the City of Fairfax Green Building Policy
2:33James Featherthank you Thank you. All right. Next item on our work session is a presentation and discussion on the proposed fiscal year 2026-2030 capital improvement program. Mr. Napter, do you have any comments? Will we turn it right over to our esteemed city manager?
Presentation and Discussion on the Proposed FY2026–FY2030 Capital Improvement Program (CIP)
1:29:04Paul Cunninghamso it's it's feasible that you would have the money through debt financing to fund the entire 83 million that's on here and when we get out to 2030 and we've got 13 million in projects is that likely to stay there or is I mean that would be a benefit where you have significant cost savings but is that likely to to change we don't have an even capital improvement program it It looks like we've got a pretty up and down road as we go across this five years.
Staff Report
2:01:52Mr. NaptystaffThank you, Mr. Chair, members of the Planning Commission. I will be brief. I just wanted to give the Planning Commission a couple of things to think about over the next couple of weeks before we come back and continue the discussion internally on December 9. So just for your reference to remind you what we did in the past, this is the language from the resolution that the Planning Commission provided to City Council last year. I want to call out a couple of the things that were identified by the Planning Commission as being important in terms of its relationship to the comprehensive plan. As the city manager pointed out, every item in the capital improvement program has a link to the comprehensive plan, to the action it relates to.
sent to you for things you want to bring up for that conversation. And we will continue that into January before you head to your public hearing. The other thing I wanted to mention is the public facilities review. Public facilities reviews are required by state code. However, they're not directly tied to the capital improvement program. This process that the city has identified for public facilities reviews relies on the CIP to identify projects as they are seeking funding to make sure we don't miss anything. with the CIP since we started doing this we've been identifying potential projects that may need a public facilities review based on state criteria. So the state criteria are whether it
Looking forward to December 3rd, City Council will receive the same presentation you received tonight to the Capital Improvement Program. Then looking forward to December 10th, several items of interest. This, of course, will be the last meeting of the current City Council. They will hold a public hearing on a special use permit for pathway homes at 401 O University Drive. This may also be known to you as the Joshua Coffer Gunnel Building at the corner of University Drive, Sager. It's a proposed reuse of the existing building that is all offices to have ground floor office above that are designated as affordable and have support services operated by pathway homes this only required a special use permit and so it did not