This will be the first intense look into the overhaul since the committee's first introductory meeting in July.

(The meeting will be held in the first floor conference room of city hall on Roanoke Avenue)

Public participation is encouraged, Planning and Development Director Kelly Lasky said following Thursday night's planning board meeting, where she told board members this Tuesday's meeting will include a review of the draft plan. Documents pertinent to the matter have been posted to the city's website and can be found by clicking this link.

Lasky said the end result of these meetings is to not come up with Draconian regulations but to create a vision for the future growth of the city.

The healthy living aspect of the plan is to study policies that could possibly mean more sidewalks and bike lanes in the city as well as making it easier to have things like fresh market and produce stands. “It's to try to have a more mobile community.”

Having an updated comprehensive land use plan also helps open to the city grant opportunities as well as economic development opportunities. “If a business is looking to relocate they look for cities with a plan,” she said.

In other matters Thursday the planning board:

• Approved a conditional permit request for the developers of Canal Walk subdivision to change its existing subdivision plat by combining existing subdivided parcels into two tracts. Tract B is 12,489 acres and consists of 22 lots while Tract C is 14,856 acres and consists of 12 lots.

• Approved an amendment to permissible uses that would allow solar farms in a B-4 zoning district by issuance of a zoning permit or conditional use permit.