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Board agrees to improve accessibility and clarify plan wording after public feedback
Summary
Commenters and board members flagged accessibility problems with the draft (font size, image descriptions) and requested clearer, high-level phrasing; staff will produce an editable Word version and line-item amendments for public review.
Multiple attendees said the draft comprehensive plan was difficult to access because of visual formatting and missing image descriptions. Michelle Spark said she could not read the draft due to accessibility issues, and the board committed to make a Word version and improve fonts and image descriptions.
Board members also discussed editorial priorities: to keep parent paragraphs that express guiding goals visible and to replace prescriptive language with phrases like "should consider" or "may permit" so that the plan reads as guidance rather than a regulatory document. The board asked staff to compile change proposals and to delay the second public hearing so those revisions can be shown to the public.
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