Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session
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Discussion of a potential review and update to the adopted small area plans for Old Town, Northfax, Kamp Washington, and Fairfax Circle
1:59:29Paul Naptystaffcomprehensive plan as well our policies and direction from various entities are always changing and we need to make shifts to accommodate that so similar to how we had to do that for the comprehensive plan we can use that as a resource for when we're updating the comprehensive for the smaller your plans so a couple of examples are shown here and there will be others as well the urban forest master plan was adopted last December a lot of recommendations and they're related to the physical development particularly in activity centers this involves creating connected green spaces conducting what they call the 330 300 analysis where we set a goal of having three trees three mature trees visible from any
analysis was conducted in 2023 as a precursor to the Urban Forest Master Plan. This is a tool that we did not have available to us before the majority of our small air plans. The Fairfax Circle small airplane was underway at the time. But this is something that we can use to identify locations for specific trees or stands of trees that are within the activity centers and determine if there are any that are have enough value to them that we would want to adjust the plans to protect them and so this is something that we would be able to use this as initial tool we would go out and fair field verify this is something that is something that is can be done I think at the activity center level the more