Planning Commission 09/25/2024 - Sep 25, 2024

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Prince William County Planning Commission 1h 1m 3 speakers 8 agenda items transcribed 7 days ago official recording ↗

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What opening remarks and agenda were set at the start of the Planning Commission meeting?

Unknown 0:00

and desired criteria. If Prince William County does not take on best managed practice ownership, VDOT will require more stringent ordinance to comply with Virginia code that gives authorization for more stringent ordinances. Further develop stormwater and drainage asset management. Look at ways to selectively take on BMP and landscape maintenance on transportation projects. When the county takes on maintenance responsibility, VDOT may agree to a wish list from the county in terms of designing and constructing green infrastructure best management practices. and enhanced landscape on such projects. Develop public educational materials regarding green infrastructure. Demonstrate good maintenance of existing infrastructure in practice.

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Focus on minimizing disruption to the public during construction. Involve the public and disclose information about projects at a higher rate than is required if possible. And conduct a thorough evaluation of the new Virginia stormwater management handbook and its implications on existing and future development in the county. I'm almost there. VDOT is primarily concerned about the cost of maintenance and asset management. The agency is willing to work with localities on a project by project basis to incorporate desired green infrastructure elements. The default assumption for VDOT is that green infrastructure maintenance is more expensive than traditional stormwater management infrastructure. So unless it can be demonstrated otherwise,

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this would necessitate that the county assumes maintenance of these elements many grants are available for green infrastructure design and construction main maintenance and program management grants are more limited Toolkits have been developed as a standard aid to evaluate the effectiveness and applicability of each green infrastructure type to each project type in Prince William County. Lists overall potential as well opportunities and potential concerns in each situation. Initial steps are focused on what Prince William County can control independently and what we can create the largest improvements. Additional steps require coordination and further studies to implement. Questions? Thank you very much.

Unknown 3:25

Thank you very much, sir. So we'll have some lights on, and I'll start with my commissioners here before I go into my thing. Commissioner Scheifler or Commissioner Ross, do you have any questions?

Blake Ross 3:37

Sure,

Mark Scheufler 3:38

I will first.

Unknown 3:39

Go right ahead, sir.

Mark Scheufler 3:43

So as far as... The CSMP recommendations, did they recommend including infrastructure, green infrastructure kind of improvements within roadways? Is that something that was recommended or potentially, you know, could be added to the comp plan or? Was that a recommendation to provide to look into that or update the comp plan to have more language in there as roadway projects or development around roadway projects occurs? Was that a recommendation or is that discussed as part of that

Megan Landis 4:30

report? It was part of discussion, sir. Oh, sorry. Commissioners Megan Landis, Department of Transportation. Good evening. It's good to be back here. um it was discussed as part of that update it was not one of the prioritized strategies simply because the prioritized strategies focused on things that could be moved forward quickly and as you've heard there's a number of challenges to green infrastructure so they did not get into a level of detail for that but julia mano with the office of sustainability was a part of the stakeholder group for this study so she is up to speed on that and is supporting us in terms of looking at grants to actually move this along as

Mark Scheufler 5:08

well. Okay, and is there, so you're going to add different things to the DCSM because I know things like trees aren't really in the DCSM except for one roadway, whereas should that be part of every roadway and the option to take it out as opposed to have to force it in or something like

Kevin Weirach 5:35

that. Yeah, that's a good question. Kevin Weirach, Transportation Planning Manager. We are adding some of it to the DCSM update. We are constrained, again, as Evandra mentioned in the presentation, by what VDOT will accept into their state roadway system.