NW District 1 Master Plan: The 50,000 Foot Level First

The Northwest portion of D1 (above) is growing rapidly.  I will soon recommend and request that a portion of my discretionary D1 LOST funding be utilized to develop a Master Plan for this entire area.  This plan will incorporate citizen-input and it will be designed to mesh with whatever is planned for the yet-to-be developed OLF 8 property.

As we in North West District 1 move closer and closer to establishing a committee to address the rapid growth of our area, one of the first things I will ask this committee to look at (once they are confirmed by the full BCC) is a Master Plan for the entire NW District 1 area (precincts 43, 5, and 68--depicted in the map above).

This entire area is growing rapidly--and as the growth occurs, there will be growing pains.  There will be great things and great businesses opening up that make our lives in this area better and create jobs for our citizens--but there will also be familiar problems (traffic-drainage) that will make this growth more challenging.

This is why I believe a committee is important going forward.

With respect to the master plan-I know there has already been significant work done by a group of individuals in this area, and I appreciate these efforts and I will not let these previous efforts go to waste;  I believe the previous work will be combined with new work to create a plan that meshes with the needs of the entire area while simultaneously addressing the challenges that the growth of the area has presented and may present in the future. 

I have set aside money from my discretionary LOST funding for D1 to pay for this NW District 1 Master Plan--- and as it pertains to OLF 8 and the development that ultimately occurs at that site once we acquire that site-- the ultimate objective for the NW D1 Master Plan will be for it to mesh with whatever is developed at OLF 8.  This will be accomplished by having the planner make multiple assumptions for what the development at OLF 8 may eventually become (Commerce park, Commerce Park with Mixed Use Retail along the frontage,  Mixed-use retail/residential, Open


 Space).  In any one of the four hypothetical scenarios for OLF 8 site--the Northwest D1 Master Plan will be designed and planned to mesh with whatever occurs.

This way, no matter what is planned and ultimately developed at OLF 8 once that site is master-planned, that development will work with one of the assumptions worked into the Northwest D1 Master Plan.