Michael, who oversees the city's long-range planning (last name not specified in the transcript), presented the required five-year update to the city's 2040 plan (referred to in presentation materials as GBL 2040). He described public workshops, online surveys and a data collection process that will feed a final plan scheduled for adoption activity next year.

Michael summarized outcomes tied to the plan's priorities. On open space, he said the city has added roughly 120 acres of the originally-identified target inside the city and annexed about 300 acres that qualify as open space under the plan's methodology; the city budgets about $250,000 a year for land acquisition. On resilience, he noted a new state-law requirement to include resilience measures and that the public ranked extreme heat, floods and severe weather among top concerns.

On housing, Michael cited five-year figures that included $63,000,000 invested over the last five years and over 7,000 housing units approved since GBL 2040 was adopted. "Over 12% of the units in those projects were approved where affordability is a requirement," he said, and the city has donated more than 16 acres of land to affordable housing projects. Michael also cited the Greenville Housing Fund's work: "630 units of affordable housing have been preserved and 179 new construction here in the city," he said.

Council members used the presentation for follow-up data requests: one councilor asked whether percentage changes reflected raw counts (for example, transit ridership or remote-work share), and another requested a breakdown of AMI (Area Median Income) targets for the reported 12% income-restricted units (how many were 80% AMI versus lower thresholds such as 30% AMI). Michael and staff agreed to follow up with the requested raw counts and demographic breakdowns.

Staff said they will prepare recommendations and the final plan documents and present them during the council retreat in early spring, followed by the formal adoption process. The meeting record contains no formal vote on the update; the presentation served as a progress report and a call for council feedback.