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What’s on our Radar – Week of April 14th, 2025

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URGENT Call-to-Action on the Clark County Comp Plan Update for the Clark County Council meeting TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 15th at 10am! View the action in the link or read on below: https://friendsofclarkcounty.org/%f0%9f%9a%a8-call-to-action-to-save-6000-acres-of-ag-forest-land-in-the-clark-county-comprehensive-plan-update/ Last week: If you missed last week’s Radar, you can get caught up here: https://friendsofclarkcounty.org/whats-on-our-radar-week-of-april-7th-2025/ The Clark County Climate Community Advisory Group held […]

🚨 CALL-TO-ACTION to Save 6,000 acres of Ag & Forest Land in the Clark County Comprehensive Plan Update

in Climate Change, Comprehensive Plan & Growth Management Act, Farmland & Forests

What’s at stake? The loss of 3,000 acres of agricultural land and 3,000 acres of forest in Clark County’s Comprehensive Plan Update to sprawling development and mining. What’s happening? The Clark County Council recently gave direction to amend the scope of work for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the 2025 Comp Plan Update […]

What’s on our Radar – Week of March 31st, 2025

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  Last week: If you missed last week’s Radar, you can get caught up here: https://friendsofclarkcounty.org/whats-on-our-radar-week-of-march-24th-2025/ Victory in sight! Last Wednesday at Council Time, the Clark County Council gave unanimous direction to move forward with repealing the Chelatchie Bluff surface mining overlay (SMO) over environmentally sensitive forest land in response to FOCC’s win at the […]

What’s on our Radar – Week of March 24th, 2025

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  Last week:  If you missed last week’s Radar, you can get caught up here: https://friendsofclarkcounty.org/whats-on-our-radar-week-of-march-17th-2025/ FOCC wrote a letter in support of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) and their recent requests of Clark County, which you can read here: https://friendsofclarkcounty.org/view-foccs-letter-of-support-for-the-bicycle-and-pedestrian-advisory-committee-bpac/ Food Waste Prevention Week: At the Tuesday evening Council meeting, they passed […]

View FOCC’s Letter of Support for the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC)

in Climate Change, Comprehensive Plan & Growth Management Act, Housing & Transportation

Hello Clark County Council, Public Works Staff, and Planner Husting, Friends of Clark County wholeheartedly supports the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC’s) requests that Clark County implement the 2010 BPAC Master Plan and the 2025 Work Plan Goals and Action Strategies, with a few additional comments: Clark County faces a convergence of urgent crises: […]

2025 Legislative Update

in Climate Change, Farmland & Forests, Housing & Transportation

In addition to helping us and other organizations locally, our partner Futurewise advocates for sane land use legislation at the state level. You can find their advocacy page here. Futurewise’s priorities this year include Rent Stabilization, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), and fighting sprawl. Sign up for updates to get their Grow Together campaign alerts so that you can act […]

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