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Planning commission completes large working session on comprehensive‑plan chapters for water, wildfire and habitat
Summary
Commissioners and staff worked line‑by‑line through draft chapters of the county comprehensive plan, choosing consultant language in some sections and alternate wording in others, agreeing to source wildfire maps and to schedule public review of the revised draft in the October cycle.
Commissioners held an extended working session focused on draft comprehensive‑plan text covering water resources, wildfire risk and wildlife habitat/open‑space policies. Staff and commissioners compared consultant text (the "Kimley‑Horn" draft) with alternate phrasing proposed by commissioners and agreed a mix of both texts better met local priorities.
Discussion items included whether plan language should be aspirational or prescriptive on water‑supply considerations, how to describe wildland‑urban interface (WUI) maps and wildfire resiliency code, and whether to highlight public education and stewardship bullets to help residents understand vegetation management and wildfire risk reduction. Commissioners asked staff to confirm and cite map sources for wildfire/WUI imagery and to compress some longer paragraphs into clearer bullets for actionable guidance.
The group confirmed a schedule to finish editing text and asked county staff and the consultant to merge edits and update appendices. Staff and the consultant will produce a consolidated draft for a special working session and a subsequent public‑review cycle in late September/October; commissioners also requested clearer cross‑references tying the land‑use map and future‑land‑use policies to environmental review language in the plan.
Where the group reached consensus it favored accessible, actionable language (short bullets for public outreach and an emphasis on encouraging—rather than mandating—certain practices in the guidance document), while reserving prescriptive regulations for later zoning/regulation stages.
