20210471 Unified Development Ordinance Sustainable Saratoga Letter Sustainable Educate.
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Board of Directors
Robin Ambrosino Dear Members of the Planning Board and Design Review Commission,
Whitney Davis RE: Advisory Opinions to the City Council on the UDO
Amy Durland
Anne Ernst As your board prepares an advisory opinion to the City Council on the proposed Final Draft
of the Unified Development Ordinance, we would like you to consider the following
Laura Faulk additional two documents.
Louise Golub
1. SUSTAINABLE SARATOGA'S 12 PRIORITY UDO AMENDMENTS.
Dianna Goodwin
Laura Rappaport This document identifies the 12 most important amendments to the UDO that we would
Richard Romano like to see incorporated into the final version of the UDO.
Ann Samuelson Amendments#2 and #4 are most relevant to the Design Review Commission.
Rachelle Thomas
Amendments#1, #3 and #5-12 are most relevant to the Planning Board.
We respectfully request that, in your advisory to the City Council,you include our
. amendments as part of your recommendations.Thank you for your consideration and
please let us know if we can provide more information that might be useful to you.
2. KEY CONCEPTS OF THE 2015 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN RELATING TO THE
GREENBELT AND RURAL CHARACTER
This document presents excerpts from the 2015 Comprehensive Plan that sets forth the
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W ndy Mahaney, ecutive Director
Sustainable Saratoga
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