City Council Meeting

Paul Nabtistaffjust consolidated together a couple of other changes are that in the activity centers where we have adopted small area plans in some cases they recommend different street types and what were shown on the comprehensive plan so we changed this to make it consistent and we also updated the locations of what are called neighborhood connectors these are kind of the main roads and to be consistent with what are identified as neighborways on the bicycle master plan because these are the routes within neighborhoods that would be used for through bicycle traffic. We updated the transportation projects list. That's the list that I showed you on the previous slide. These are primarily smaller projects.

William Fournierpublic commentGood evening. I'm William Fournier. I live at 10134 Spring Lake Terrace and Country Club Hills. Inserting the small area plans into the comprehensive plan will mandate their guidance for the development which is counter to the retention of Fairfax City's town lot character. The small area plans are referenced in a number of locations in the document. Action LU1-2.1 regularly reviewed the zoning and subdivision ordinances and the zoning map to ensure that they are able to support small area plans. This will create havoc on our current ordinances. The transportation overlay districts immediately come to mind. Any height or dwelling unit requirements will go out the window. I quote, small area plans should be referenced for specific guidance on physical characteristics

of development for any site within an activity center. You recently rejected the courthouse plaza redevelopment design, which used the small area plan as justification. You won't be able to deny it in the future. The small building artistic renditions in the plans are misleading in how they portray the results of the development. Nine-story buildings are not in keeping with the city since the Massey building was demolished. The small area plans do not necessarily make economic sense. In the Fairfax Circle small area plan, the Home Depot will be gone in 10 years. Home Depot is the single highest sales tax revenue to the city. During the planning commission meeting, Dr. Rice said that Home Depot, like it is now,

is not going away. Although the Commission approved the plan, these plans do not represent what the future should be. In the Camp Washington small area plan, the Lowe's goes away in 10 years. This type of change is just one of the things that invalidates these plans. The plans add a massive number of residents which have a significant impact on the cost of the city. If you just look at the student yield ratio and the school contribution in the proffers, you'll see that there is not a correlation of the costs and what is going to come to the city. Just to recap, these small area plans should not be incorporated because 1. Massive zoning changes will be required. 2. There will be negative economic impact.

3. The small area plans are misleading. for the character of the city will no longer be a small town there are more issues and examples thank you three minutes can cover thank

Wendy Sanfordstaffthe City Council goals it comes from our strategic plan and as I mentioned our adopted city plans and there are a number of them we have our comprehensive plan all of our small area plans our bike plan our economic development strategic plan our parks and recreation master plan and these are plans that have gone through engagement process they they've gone through public vetting they've been adopted by the City Council so what that means is that these are concepts that have already been endorsed by the City Council. So why is a two-year program important? As I mentioned, transportation projects take a long time to develop, fund, and implement. They span multiple City Councils. There are significant time, money, resources going into every single project. So it's