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City staff refreshes Reimagine Reno master plan for council; cautions against using it as strict code
Summary
Development services staff presented the 2017 Reimagine Reno master plan as a 20‑year vision and urged council and planners to treat it as guidance — not a regulatory checklist — while underlining the plan’s role in long‑range CIP, concurrency and prioritization.
City staff gave a high‑level refresher on the Reimagine Reno master plan, urging elected officials and commissioners to treat the document as a guiding vision rather than a set of regulatory requirements.
Angela Foos, assistant director of Development Services, told the council the current master plan — adopted in 2017 after roughly two and a half years of public outreach — is intended to guide policy, infrastructure planning and long‑term land use decisions over a 20‑year horizon. Foos emphasized that the plan uses “promote,” “encourage” and “should” rather than “shall,” and therefore is…
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