November 25 Environmental Committee - Nov 25, 2025

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What is the purpose of the November 25 Environmental Committee meeting?

Unknown 0:00

Got three.

Andres F. Jimenez 0:03

Good evening or good afternoon. It's just dark now. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Environmental Committee uh meeting November twenty-fifth, twenty twenty five. Today we have three presentations: electric vehicle readiness, greenhouse gas inventory, and resilient trees. Before we begin I wanna ask for acceptance of the meeting summary from our september sixteenth meeting, unless there are any comments or corrections, we will consider that summary accepted as presented. With that accepted, I will now turn over the meeting to Director John Morrill and his staff for the first presentation. So please, sir, uh after you.

John Morrill 0:47

Uh thank you. Uh good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the Board of Supervisors. My name is John Morrell of the Office of Environmental and Energy Coordination, and I'm joined by Julie Gurney, also of OEEC. Mark Moffat and Marguerite Guarino of the Department of Vehicle Services, and Deputy County Executive Alicia Sear McCormick. Uh this first presentation provides a summary of the findings from a recent analysis prepared with consultant support on the transition of the county fleet managed by vehicle services to electric vehicles and a community electric vehicle readiness strategy, which identifies gaps in EV charging infrastructure throughout the community. and how we might address filling those gaps.

John Morrill 1:35

First, to summarize the EV readiness strategy, here is Julie Gurney.

Julie Gurney 1:42

Thank you, John. Thank you, members of the board, for having us. My name's Julie Gurney and I'm uh with the Office of Environmental and Energy Coordination. Uh so for the community portion of the EV readiness strategy, we worked with both internal and external stakeholders. We shared a copy dra we shared a draft copy of the strategy on the Fairfax County public input site in July and had a public town hall to present the strategy. We now have a final strategy and are gonna share the main points of that today. So this chart from CCAP shows greenhouse gas emissions in Fairfax County. Transportation makes up a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions, and overall our county fleet emissions make up a very small portion of that.

Julie Gurney 2:24

So we have been pleased to see that electric vehicle registrations in the community have steadily increased since twenty sixteen. We did just receive preliminary twenty twenty-four numbers and the number of registrations is now over thirty seven thousand. So as part of the community EV readiness, we want to ensure that Fairfax County infrastructure is supporting the needs of its residents. To meet the county's C CAP goal of fifteen percent of all light duty registrations to be electric vehicles. By twenty thirty five, the community portion of the E V Readiness Strategy focuses on Increasing EV adoption and accessibility of public EV infrastructure for residents in underserved communities, and increasing access to DC fast charging stations to fill in the gaps in EV charging infrastructure around the county.

Julie Gurney 3:12

So to reach these goals, the analysis used background data and community input with mapping software to consider adding L two level two charging stations. to fill in um for residents sorry, excuse me, to um for residents in underserved communities and Um looking at that through an equity lens and looking at DC FC charging stations to fill in the fast charging gaps. And so these two maps show an overview of the pro proposed locations for L two charging on the left using an equity lens and DCFC on the right to fill in fast charging gaps. So using GIS, we can zoom into these locations and see the details on each priority zone. So the map on the left shows current charging infrastructure in yellow and green and recommended infrastructure.

Julie Gurney 4:04

Um in light and dark blue. And on the right you can see we can zoom into each location. And get details for current and recommended stations. So we're going to use these maps to guide us in our next steps to improve charging access across Fairfax County. So currently we're meeting with charging network and infrastructure providers to discuss the opportunities for public private partnerships and other opportunities to expand the charging infrastructure within Fairfax County with an emphasis on equity and filling gaps where they're identified.