Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session
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Consideration of the 2025 Planning Commission Annual Report to City Council and associated updates to the 2035 Comprehensive Plan Implementation Guide and Small Area Plan Implementation Guides
58:42Amy Lynne Dennystaffmonitoring of the bike share and micro mobility programs in the city and additionally the Warwick McLean intersection improvements are under construction moving on to environment and sustainability 16 of the 64 total actions were updated including the energy efficiency community block grant which has been received. This will provide public education and energy outreach coordinator and free energy audits for homeowners. The urban forest master plan was adopted in January and you will hear more in a few minutes about the tree conservation ordinance which is being done in conjunction with the small area plan zoning ordinance amendments and the rollout of the new trash and recycling carts is complete. In economic vitality, 10 of the 21 total actions
Continued discussion of potential amendments to the City of Fairfax Zoning Ordinance related to adopted small area plans with a focus on frontages, open space, tree conservation and landscaping, and parking
1:08:56Paul Nabtistaffand one thing i'll point out is you'll notice in the draft amendments there is a parking section we began to work on this with wsc and they have provided some recommendations on how we CAN HANDLE THAT WE'LL GO THROUGH THAT WE'VE ALSO STARTED LOOKING AT SOME ALTERNATIVES PARTICULARLY BECAUSE OF SOME DATA THAT WE HAVE COME ON TO BECAUSE OF RECENT STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN DONE THAT ALL THAT I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH THE SECOND ONE WE'RE CALLING LANDSCAPING ESSENTIALLY THOUGH THIS IS THE TREE CONSERVATION ORDINANCE THIS IS A RECOMMENDATION OF THE NOW ADOPTED URBAN FOREST MASTER PLAN BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR A WHILE THIS This piece would apply citywide. However, we think it relates directly to this because there are a lot of recommendations
AND MOVE ON TO THE STAFF REPORT, MR. NAFTE. THANK YOU AGAIN, CHAIR FEATHER AND MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. We have not met since February 9th, so I'll go back a couple of City Council meetings to recap. On February 10, the City Council unanimously approved adoption of the Urban Forest Master Plan that the Planning Commission recommended approval on. This document will likely result in necessary updates to some of our policies and codes. So thank you for your participation in that, and we expect to be talking to you about some of those, already are talking about also thank you for the planning commissioners who came to present the capital improvement program recommendations that will be a good resource for city council as they