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What’s on our Radar – Week of December 22nd, 2025

December 22, 2025 in General


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

  • Last week:
      • FOCC’s December Newsletter went out. If you’re a subscriber, you can find it in your inbox. 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 (and how that potential is going ignored in the county’s economic plans), 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. You don’t want to miss it!

      • There was a Heritage Farm Public Access Open House, which was recorded and can be reviewed here. Couldn’t make it? No problem! We’ve uploaded the county’s Heritage Farm Community Survey to our website and you can still provide feedback through January 8th, 2026.

      • There was a meeting of the Agricultural Advisory Commission. Recording available here. Items of note:

        • They discussed the draft of the Commission’s priorities to be communicated to the Clark County Council that was developed by a subcommittee, as well as Co-Chair Mo McKenna’s revision draft. Both are available here. In short, the Commission plans to share with the Council their position that it should maintain existing agricultural lands designations (i.e. no de-designation) in the Comp Plan Update, as well as develop a Growth Management Act (GMA) compliant plan for land designation going forward.

        • The Commission put together a subcommittee regarding code enforcement related to agriculture in Clark County.

      • The county put out a short explainer video on the Comp Plan Update and the Agricultural Lands Study that would be great for sharing with your friends and family who aren’t in the know!

      • The county also put out a short video about the 40th anniversary of Clark County’s Legacy Lands program here.
  • This week:
      • Please take the rest of this holiday season and reprieve from Council meetings to rest and recharge! Please also be sure 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.
  • Other Clark County advisory board/commission meetings:
  • 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!

See you next week!
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