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Planners: searchable database will let council members pull the exact recommendations behind summary pie charts

Plan and Housing and Economic Development Committee · March 5, 2026

Summary

Staff said the progress reports are supported by an Access database that records each of the 18,000+ plan recommendations; the database can produce plan‑ or district‑level lists on request and the multi‑page reports will be made available online.

Planning staff told the committee the short slide summaries are drawn from a deeper data set that links each recommendation to implementation status and partner agencies.

"We did review more than 18,000 discrete strategies and recommendations within those 36 plans," Kevin Keeley said, and staff noted the full record lives in an Access database that was too large to attach as a single file. Thomas Lester said the reports were transmitted to the committee (split across emails because of size) and that staff can run queries to pull the full recommendation lists for individual council members.

Committee members asked for those extracts and for clearer displays that show which recommendations were implemented, which were not feasible, and which remain pending. Staff agreed they can update the pie‑chart displays and run plan or district exports so members can see the underlying items.

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