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What’s on our Radar – Week of December 15th, 2025

This Radar is created every week by community outreach staff supported by grassroots community dollars. Our end-of-year fundraising campaign is underway, so if you appreciate this effort, please consider chipping in and donating any amount to FOCC today. You can learn more about our work this year on our website’s home page.

📣 The Clark County Agricultural Lands Study was completed and FOCC needs your help. Check out our Call to Action here.

FOCC’s comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the 2026 Comprehensive Plan Update were submitted and are available here.

• Last week:
  

• • There isn’t much to report from last week as there are no Council meetings for the rest of the year. Be sure to catch up on last week’s Radar if you haven’t already, available here.

  • FOCC’s December Newsletter went out. If you’re a subscriber, be sure to check your inboxes. If not—no worries! You can view all of the articles on the News section of our website here. Our President, Ann Foster, wrote a great article on the potential of our agricultural economy in light of the Agricultural Lands Study findings, we have an update from Mary Goody and Tonya Enger on the legacy forest saga, the latest on the Comp Plan from Jackie Lane, a Camp Bonneville update, and more.
    

• This week:
  • Please take this week off from Council meetings to check out our newsletter and consider sending us an end-of-year donation to get us on solid footing for the work ahead in 2026.

  • Since there are no more Council meetings through the end of the year, we’ll be pausing our Radars. Until then, we hope you take the time to recharge and enjoy the holidays!

• Other Clark County advisory board/commission meetings:
  

• • Wednesday, December 17th at 6pm is a special meeting of the Clark County Agricultural Advisory Commission. More information here.
    

• Other happenings:
  

• • Save the date for FOCC’s upcoming Parks Forum!
    
    Our first forum of 2026 will be on Thursday, January 22nd from 5 – 6:30 pm and will be focused on parks in Clark County.

    Exploring natural places provides renewal, feelings of well-being, and a sense of harmony with the broader community and environment. In Clark County, the presence of protected natural areas within our urban fabric serves to counterbalance the stress and strain of modern life. Parks, trails and open spaces are what we most associate with ‘livability’ in our community.

    With the climate crisis, parks are needed more than ever for climate resiliency and to counter the urban heat island effect. Let’s talk about what Clark County can do to tackle our parks deficit as we plan for increased population growth in the coming years.

    We will have 3 panelists discuss parks in our community:

• • • Glen Yung, Clark County Councilor, District 1
    • Ross Hoover, Division Manager, Parks and Nature within Public Works for Clark County
    • David Perlick, Director, Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services Department for the City of Vancouver

      We will share more information about how to sign up for this remote forum as the date approaches—but for now, SAVE THE DATE!

• • LULAC Metro released this amazing video titled “The Land That Feeds” all about the need to preserve agricultural land in Clark County. You can view it here: https://vimeo.com/1106302162/319a913375?share=copy

• • Public resource: Reminder about a great public resource! FOCC’s own Jackie Lane tracks Clark County’s land use activities in a publicly available document here, so be sure to bookmark it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10cpQ2gWr86wLyIlRvhgI9eRF8aesDYIZ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108071388396855006181&rtpof=true&sd=true

See you next week!
FOCC Community Outreach