Fairfax staff tighten environment element of policy plan, ask board how specific to be on stormwater and other standards

Fairfax County Department of Planning and Development staff on Tuesday presented a revised environment element for the county's policy plan that emphasizes climate change, equity and sustainable site design while asking the Board of Supervisors how detailed the comprehensive plan should be on technical topics such as stormwater management.

Corrine Bebek, planning division project lead, told the Land Use Policy Committee that staff consolidated and redrafted the element to remove redundancies, add explicit references to the county's climate and equity goals, and align the document with existing county strategies including CCAP, Resilient Fairfax, 1 Fairfax and the Tree Action Plan. "We've now been through 3 rounds of community outreach and are working to incorporate comments we've been receiving since the publication of the draft text this spring,"…