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The Greenbelt Committee has had a very busy year meeting twice a month on the second and fourth Thursdays to evaluate Greenbelt Requests and Greenbelt Maintenance Permits. Each request is evaluated on the basis of the Covenants, Rules and Regulations, Greenbelt Management Plan, Shorelines and Sensitive Areas Guidelines, Firewise Guidelines, View Restoration Guidelines, and View Creation Guidelines as well as our processes and procedures. Most of these requests require at least one onsite visit to fully understand the proposed action. All of this pretty much uses a Thursday morning.
In addition to the processing of requests, we have been working on clarifying the Greenbelt Master Plan. We are also in the process of updating our Processes and Procedures to reflect the added services of our committee secretary.
We are in the process of developing a systematic plan to reduce the fuel load in the greenbelts and to create a vertical firebreak between the underbrush and the crowns of the trees. This is being done with the advice and support of the Safety and Firewise Committees. We are also working with the Social and Recreation Committee with the support of the Safety Committee to design and start construction on a walking path to parallel Shelter Bay Drive from the maintenance building to the upper pool to provide a safe alternative for our walkers and bikers off the road way.
When you read all of these activities and achievements it is pretty impressive. When you look at the roster of people on this committee who achieved these feats you see a list of people who can achieve such things without even breaking a sweat. Jan O’Leary, Paul Crain, Tracy Powell, Steff Steinhorst, Cheryl Westlake, and Dennis Massoth contributing and working together with a little guidance and prodding from me, Jack Withrow, are working together to complete these projects.
Respectively submitted,
Jack Withrow
Greenbelt Committee Chair
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