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Planning commission recommends small but significant map edits to Oak Ridge comprehensive plan
Summary
Staff summarized Planning Commission recommendations to change three Future Land Use Map parcels (two to nature/open space, one federal property designation), explained the adoption/transmittal sequence required by state law, and said council will consider first reading at the May business meeting.
Miss Williams presented the revised comprehensive plan and the Planning Commission’s February recommendation to send the document to council with six edits. She said items 1–3 were minor text and acknowledgement fixes, while items 4–6 were map changes affecting the Future Land Use Map.
Miss Williams described the three map edits: two parcels (an ED‑six parcel and an area in the 3‑bins planning area) recommended to change from single‑family/mixed‑use to nature and open space, and a substantial portion of the west end of the city — currently federal property that planners had labeled industrial — that the Planning Commission recommended relabeling as federally owned land. She noted that if federal property transfers in the future the Planning Commission and council would reassign appropriate land‑use designations.
Councilmember Hensley said the city manager has asked the Department of Energy for 90 days’ notice before potentially transferable DOE land is conveyed so the Planning Commission can review zoning prior to any transfer. Miss Williams said adoption procedures differ from zoning: the planning commission adopts by resolution and transmits to council; if council seeks changes, the plan must go back to planning commission.
Councilmembers were told the revised plan (with an improved, more legible land‑use map) will appear on the May agenda for first reading and that the consultant will attend that meeting.
No formal votes were taken at the work session; staff confirmed next procedural steps toward the May business meeting.
