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29 passages for “Urban Forest Master Plan” in Planning Commission meetings
… Mr. Nabti provided updates on recent City Council actions and upcoming planning activities, including: adoption of the Urban Forest Master Plan (Feb 10), support for the Affordable Housing Strategic Plan and introduction of Small Area Plan zoning ordinance amendments (Feb 17), updates on the Level of Services Study an…
Final consideration of the Urban Forest Master Plan (UFMP). Planning Commission approved a recommendation to City Council for approval of the Urban Forest Master Plan in the draft dated December 2025, 5:0.
Commission Comments. Commissioners provided updates on external meetings and events attended, including the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, a budget open house, the Central Fairfax Chamber of Commerce Expo, and an Urban Forest Master Plan presentation.
Urban Forest Master Plan project overview and discussion. Dr. Garrett Wolf of Marstel-Day presented an overview of the Urban Forest Master Plan proposal to the commission during the Work Session. No formal action was taken.
the same work session on the smaller plan zoning ordinance amendments they will have a update of the urban forest master plan implementation and a discussion on the housing trust fund or a process for determining how to review funding requests for the housing trust fund this is not related to having any kind of ongoing…
Block Grant. The Urban Forest Master Plan was adopted and invasive removal efforts continue in our parks. now for this the environment and sustainability section three actions the timeframe for completion for three of the actions was changed due to discussion with City Council at a work session in June on the sustainab…
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 sta…
…he 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 spac…
…LING 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 r…
…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 ordinan…
… 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 participat…
… folks provided comment and were able to review documents. The public's role of course played a big part in shaping the urban forest master plan. The as a summary of the engagement process. An engagement, all engagement activities were tracked throughout the project in a database which then was provided to staff as a r…
…again a lot of questions around implementation. So I thought I'd take a moment to kind of address what's next after the Urban Forest Master Plan is adopted. We recognize there's concerns around budgeting. There's a lot here in the plan. As I've presented over the past slides, there's five main objectives, 21 strategies…
…t fulfilling one objective here, really, or action item. There's going to be maybe a dozen, and they all relate to this urban forest master plan. It's a culmination of a lot of activity, effort, an important milestone for the city, and thank you for your and your team's leadership in getting us to this point. COMMISSIO…
…nd involvement in the urban forest then the third step how do we get there again this is the implementation plan of the urban forest master plan it ties the information from the first two chapters the existing conditions and the vision and goals for the future into objectives strategies and actions to be implemented Th…
…rban forest forecasting and modeling around canopy and climate change canopy change and climate change We recognize the urban forest master plan itself cannot actually forecast or include forecasting of these changes. A lot of that data is usually done at a county, state, or regional level. And so in addition, we also …
slides of some of the projects and how it relates to the Urban Forest Master Plan moving forward. So first being again that Urban Forestry Program Evaluation Report that was done five years ago and I think it's important to highlight how much work has been accomplished over the five years since that report first came o…
with that I just want to say it is a big milestone to adopt an urban forest master plan, and I think it's a good step forward for our urban forest. And so with that, I'll open up to any other questions or comments you all have.
Okay. Good evening, Planning Commission. As Paul mentioned, I'm here to provide a presentation on the final urban forest master plan. Tonight during the presentation, I want to provide acknowledgments for those that participated and assisted with this planning effort. I'll also provide a higher level overview of the pr…
The Urban Forest Master Plan has five objectives. Protect, strengthen tree and forest conservation. Regulate, enhance city policies to protect and expand tree canopy, both in content and process. Grow, create space, plant, and care for new trees. manage establish a dedicated urban forestry division for all urban forest…
Tomorrow, City Council meeting, they will be having their public hearing on the Urban Forest Master Plan. They will receive their presentation from you on the Capital Improvement Program recommendations. And they have a work session on the Willard Sherwood Community Center project. For your next meeting, February 23rd,…
…fied that city staff would take the lead on as we started this process with our consultant and this is one of them. The urban forest master plan you just discussed tonight is going to city council to be considered for adoption tomorrow. Has recommendations about establishing a tree preservation ordinance and so this is…
… details of each of these chapters the first being what do we have establishing the baseline the six components for the urban forest master plan included an analysis of the city's land cover data it reviewed the 2023 public tree inventory it did an assessment of non-native invasive species on public land it benchmarked…
…ain later, but wanted to provide context now. So again, as you're aware, the project has produced the city's first ever urban forest master plan. The goal was to create a 20-year roadmap for the stewardship of Fairfax's urban forest through protection, regulation, growth, and management. The project included assessing …
…portunities within the city which are revealed in part through outreach efforts like these. This will be the first ever urban forest master plan for the city. It will create a to maximize the city's time and taxpayer dollars while responding to current and future conditions. Using a variety of recommendations, the mast…
… document that allows strategic planning and resource allocation for urban tree management in the long term. Generally, urban forest master plans explore tree maintenance, planting needs,…
…gement. It kicked off in June of 2024 and completed in early 2025 where we moved into phase two, the development of the urban forest master plan itself. We are now here not in January, but in February of 2026 with a final plan. And we'll be presenting to city council, like Paul said tomorrow night for their considerati…
plan. At the time when this action was included, the city did not have an urban forester on staff and so the planning division led by the sustainability coordinator provided or led a urban forestry program evaluation study in 2021 this study identified two top recommendations it reiterated the need for an urban forest …
development of the actual urban forest master plan community engagement and outreach activities have been ongoing through both phases. During phase two we tabled at History Day and Fall Fest. We had two public meetings and a spring photo contest. The winners of the photo contest have been incorporated throughout the pl…