Review Draft Natural Resources Chapter of Comprehensive Plan

The purpose of this case is to review a draft of the Natural Resources Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan and provide initial feedback to Staff. This Draft was reviewed by the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee on December 11.  Note that the review of this chapter, similar to all the other chapters, will be an iterative review process . This will not be the last time the Board will review this chapter.

The draft chapter was reviewed by the Comp Plan Steering Committee on December 11, 2017.  While this is a very rough draft, there were some items identified by that group that should be considered for inclusion in the document.  The following topics were identified:

• Broaden recycling language to include and address commercial recycling
• Road salt and the potential impacts on water quality
• Air pollution (as a result of a growing community and increased traffic counts)
• Water regulations (this was a result of a discussion about increasing the frequency of billing to monthly rather than quarterly to potentially assist with identifying leaks and high usage)
• Energy efficient initiatives

As noted previously, this will not be the last the EPB sees this draft chapter.  Staff wanted to provide the Board an opportunity early on to provide input and feedback on the content thus far.  It is intended that this draft chapter will also be reviewed by the Planning Commission at their January meeting.

Provide input and recommendations on the draft chapter.