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Fair Haven Planning Board Meeting – November 2, 2017 Members present: Darrell Uetz, Vivian Sciarabba, Debra Rose, Catherine Byers. Absent: Larry Cosser There were no petitioners before the Board. After reviewing some notes and other ideas, the members returned to the work of updating Fair Haven’s Comprehensive Plan. This work had been initiated at the previous Planning Board meeting of October 17th with the support and recommendations of members of the Sterling Planning Board, many of whom were present. We noted once again the importance of an up-dated Comprehensive Plan for the Village. It is essential for applying for future community grants, and also is a necessary foundation for the future work of updating and bringing the Village Codes and Zoning into alignment. We discussed the meaning of the time frames “Short, Medium and Long Term.” Proposed: Short is 1-3 years. Medium is 3-5 years, and Long is 5-7 years. We completely removed several goals and objectives (specifically those that would require insurance costs that would be too high to ever let the projects happen). Others were updated and refined. Many timeframes were extended from short through long, i.e. “on-going.” In as many cases as possible, we expanded the list of possible collaborators for the different goals and objectives. These include Village and County agencies and government, local businesses, organizations and clubs. We noted that apparently the whole Comprehensive Plan is not in a document form that can easily be revised. We decided to submit our handwritten notes (on the existing document) from the meeting directly to the Village Clerk so they could be viewed by others as soon as possible. The Board submits our recommendations to the Village Trustees, and would like advice on the next step. We think this should be as collaborative a process as possible. What level of feedback and involvement from the wider community is needed? How and when should we implement this process? Should this process be similar to the meetings and surveys that were used to establish the original Comprehensive Plan? One suggestion to get this out-reach going: set up community suggestion boxes at the Library, Village Hall and Fire Department. Respectfully submitted by Debra Rose