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Creosote Valley 2045 · Draft Plan, page 4
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- Staff replies kept on the record
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A fictional area plan. Read the sheet, leave a comment, and see where it lands.
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Click anywhere on the sheet to place a comment. The growth boundary, the wash corridor and the missing trail connections are the three things this plan is deciding.
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Plan preparationFrom existing conditions to an adopted plan.
- 01Goals, policies and implementation
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- 03Adoption-ready documents
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- 03Outreach plans and materials
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- 03Report and board-ready figures
GIS and analysisLayers, corridors, suitability and pressure.
- 01Data assembly and cleanup
- 02Connectivity and suitability modeling
- 03Map series and geodatabases
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- 02Policy and code review
- 03Source libraries with citations
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