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Fayetteville EAC debates integrating climate-resilience map into planning packets
Summary
Committee members and staff discussed the city’s climate-resilience mapping tool, its data and limitations, and whether to include a resilience score alongside the infill score in Planning Commission packets; staff emphasized the tool is a desktop screening product that requires ground-truthing and was not designed to be a sole determinant for rezoning.
The Fayetteville Environmental Action Committee spent the second half of its December meeting reviewing the climate-resilience mapping tool developed as part of the city’s Climate Action Plan and debating how — and whether — to incorporate its output into planning and rezoning review.
Chair Jeff introduced the resilience map as “a tool that was kind of co-developed with the climate action plan,” and staff explained the index produces composite parcel scores from datasets representing ecosystem services, resilience and carbon sequestration, with a separately reported climate-equity metric. Lee Folsom and other staff emphasized multiple times that the map is intended as a desktop screening tool, not a stand-alone…
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