here is updating the town plan and just to let you know a little bit about my self and i sort of was explaining this a little bit to some of you first but i'm originally from vermont grew up in essex and currently live in hollow road so it's right around the corner here looking forward to riding my bike here in the summer or maybe even the spring but definitely not now best route for me i think as and i was there for about three years and i was the planning director there and then prior to that i was working it for the town of essex and i was the template there and that was for six years and then  home in vermont and happy to be in jericho which i feel you know somewhat like home so it's right around the corner so it does feel like home in that way and i'm just feel like i'm just getting my feet wet and trying to understand planning here and how things work and dynamics and all of that you know we have a new zoning in minister too and so she is just learning things and she's based on some experience that i've had in my professional background but i realize this is your board and the decisions are ultimately up to you but i hope i can be here to answer questions and give some guidance  said you know i don't see myself stepping in and leading the meeting i think that that's up to you all to do that but i am happy you know just step up and do what you want me to do as well so i think well  figured out as we go along and that being said i don't really have much for you to do tonight i didn't have any particular tasks that i had to do so i got the fischel agenda posted and have the two daughters we put in addition on the house and put an apartment on the house for them and so my daughter was home sick today and my parents watched or so they have built and babysitter so and i lived there when i was five i think in my my daughters are four and six this had to decide to become a clan  you know and that's a good question i am from my undergrad and have a degree in geography and sociology which is are fairly closely related to planting but i didn't know it at the time i didn't know that planning existed you know in the least in those words and when i moved to new york city i just was in for all that to see how everything worked and you know never know what you're going to see around the corner and you know the subways underground and you get around and just just fascinating i wandered into barnes and noble once i was looking at myself planning and so i picked up the book the life and death of america's great cities by jane jacobs and i read it like i love this this is what i want to do and so i realized i needed a master's most likely to do anything in it so i looked into schools and decided to go with hunter and that's that's that and so i knew i loved it i didn't know what it was and on my own business in the construction and yeah i came to the planning commission simply because like there's all kinds of stuff going on in town and i just felt like i was in a lot of bitch about anything unless i got involved so this is sort of you so the next thing we've got on the agenda is the community survey and fortunately or unfortunately didn't have time so i talked to talk about the prizes we haven't decided how we're going to do it but there's no problem we'll do with one hundred or so i mean the question is do we want to say go to  this is the problem of it so i have down on january twenty first is this buckboard hearing as opposed to february and we can push it out to february if we need to we need to add an extra week or so but it's nice to have a little bit cushion on the end in case something goes wrong or you know you need another hearing right so i didn't spend a whole lot of time thinking through the order of the different topics but i kind of did it in order of really look at it you know at the next meeting do so assume that it's maybe there are a few loose ends but essentially it's done so if we kind of do that one chapter a meeting then we do have a little extra time at the end so you'll see it kind of goes through august fifth and there and it's crazy though to think about it's it's really the hearing or the warning for the hearing cast to rewrite that's happening you know a new chapter or just a you know total rejiggering of things so yeah so it's good to see where you've started and where what you've done so i did see that the work that you all had done district in the questions you had with that and then the the rural district in changes with bad and i'm just trying to understand i think i saw the minutes before i saw this this this and this made helps it make more sense to me so it was so i could enter this in to chapter and so we can see the changes that are made and i have not done that yet but it might be happy to and you know we we can from where we go tonight we could start doing order to and i think we may find that some chapters go a lot faster and we're not going to need a lot of time on others will need some more so i think for example the land use chapter is a pretty significant chapter which means i'm looking at  where you might find that you know education childcare is just really updating figures and that's something that i'm happy to do you know i think that's true with the chapter two which is a community profile essentially so that census data you know that that's the problem with that process question so when we have hearing our hearing and then the like ford has multiple hearing clarifying something you know obviously fixing typos are a little bit of reformatting but if you're changing something i think they say and you intend to do it yeah and concept or money then or you know something gets taken a big chunk gets taken away or added tha so i don't get there's nothing really statutory it's more just what has changed in the last five years so it's hard to be accurate yeah yeah so so if so realistically i don't think we want to go through necessarily pulling paragraph by colonel apart you know who you know so i'm i'm happy to update anything that i'm just kind of rethinking how i have this structured is so say next week we're going to do cultural historic resources that maybe we take a quick look at it together and maybe point out some things that we think need to be  it's clean five years really great i mean it and that but every single town is like this so it's it's it's not you know if you have a plan that covers a lot of topics you're going to have you should have a lot of these things as goals  so one thing i should actually for out there the state legislature is looking through potentially an amendment to the tax state statute about when town plans need to be updated so it could happen in this session that any plan that's do after july first of this year goes on a ten year cycle so do you think it's really going to go i know that i had initially heard that it was probably a pipe years of all these different so that when people are answering the survey and they say they say i want more of this or less of this we have the numbers to compare that  since we need to do the way we used to which i mean as you said that's really the only section where we're thinking of making changes to the tax just because the stuff that we've been talking about for work because a lot of  highlights our commercial district is one of our most scenic resources so it's trying to be all things to all people hopefully we'll learn something  make that more clear by making the description itself more clear the transitional and then some kind of the desires of it not being one or the other not being village so the only and maybe this isn't the only thing but that what immediately pops to my mind is that if this does translate to zoning so the zoning cat dony district would change and so in that sense you don't have all these details of progress and stop as readily available when you read the zoning you do because there is no purpose statements are each of the districts so it would be there and so that would be updated  someone just looking at a map or just looking at the density for each district would catch that but maybe that's not a big deal but it but it is sort of obvious it goes from ten acres owning  well what it i don't know if we're going to get an answer to that i can kind of think it over a little bit of something pops up to my mind or in my mind about it a different way to name it then we go with that in the same would be wrong of something october but then of these we have a placeholder of what it's ultimately going to be good i guess i'm confused it's not mentioned i write it is not mentioned because at the didn't have to be made a couple months ago i think it was look i know i know you guys have looked at the tell here this i think this was under the we first started doing in this way breaking it down into goals in the strategies to achieve the goals and th one of the things that would be nice is for this document not to get larger over time but maybe smaller and it's possible that we could eliminate some of the goals and some of the things that we've done  i know this was in for a reason but for the life of me i'm not quite sure what there is that separates i'm not making a lot of sense i don't know that this is necessary an throws we're not sure maybe we just leave it here for one one minor change implementation five point one point three point one since the m p o has been swallowed b yes you're right that's an addition that has to go  oing to see how it how it goes down awful lot of tensions but that that's a really important piece for us is when the plan is done whenever we get a breather to go to that spreadsheet sorted by the task that i mean the great thing about having it on the cell sort of the tasks that are ours in the as opposed to all galvanised i know it's still a tired rail you know so it's harder for sure but then like five to to one you guys have worked over the last year i thank bonuses for people who make more dense development that make the labor work to be done there really and services are designed saying i mean this is in this section it's not going to use which is interesting but would be updating history in a sense to say that you know at or maybe not all of five to one to maybe that last sentence days particularly intelligence enters an increase in the total number shall not in itself be detrimental so that as people are watching basketball court so other go on to economic development do you think kathy i have a tendency to push things too quickly when i do that tell me to not do that and we have a tendency as a group to talk them to death so we do economic development in the community where you know business of doing it self organizing which is what western slopes and versus ten other men actually doing it it seems like the businesses if they really want to do want to do it th is through the town but although i wrote a story about it quite honestly i'm not completely in totally clear as to what they will say they will probably just bad if they don't have a project the idea was that development corporation is not necessarily one or the other it's to do projects that the town can't really do like the town itself should be a land developer community development corporation  open meeting laws it can't get money from the general fund and if it incurs any debt the town will not be responsible five people appointed for staggered term sounds like they should have it's own yeah with that yeah i get it but i agree with john about that that if you're if you're thinking of a that if if it's a given that our town does want economic development that's a given that this document should acknowledge the fact that one of the one of the barriers to our build economic development is the lack of the structure in certain areas and i think that and i think that if we're going to if the first ten says one central barrier is it up and one of the strategy should service yes you that you do but i can look and see if there's a call that was implementation about changing me i could see it that happened or you know or if i know something i think i'll do my homework you know we already areas but i think having the trend isn't the worst versus having you know i mean utilities facilities and services i think we've got a sense of even if people don't want to see more of whatever in the