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Planning commission continues comprehensive-plan review; debates 'City in a Park' language, consultant role and property-maintenance scope
Summary
Commissioners continued a line-by-line review of the comprehensive plan on July 16, debating whether to retain the phrase "City in a Park," how to treat aspirational language versus binding goals, consultant involvement, and whether property-maintenance items belong in the comp plan.
The Fort Thomas Planning Commission continued its multi-session review of the city's comprehensive plan on July 16, focusing on which statements should be treated as formal goals and objectives and which should remain aspirational language embedded in the wider document.
Staff told the commission it had pulled core goals and objectives from the front of each section and flagged additional language throughout the plan that might function as implicit goals. Staff said it had consulted informally with the consultant team that created the 2018 plan to advise on language cleanup, noting the consultants are familiar with the document's original intent.
Several commissioners raised concerns about the consultant relationship. Speaker 1 recalled council-level concern over a perceived conflict of interest if the same consultant both authored the 2018 plan and now advised on…
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