CYPRESS : Residents Enlisted in General Plan Study

Six key areas of the city will be studied by 32 residents, who last week formed committees to help update the city’s General Plan.

The advisory committees were formed to give citizen input into the planning process, officials said. The General Plan is a blueprint which determines how land in the city can be used.

Six areas were chosen by the City Council for study, including Lincoln Avenue, the Cypress Business Park, areas in the northern portion of the city recently annexed from the county, De Long Street, Wicker Drive and areas zoned public and semipublic.

“It is a long-term project,” said Holly Hamlin, interim planning director. “There will be a lot of thought put into it by the committees.”

For the next few months, the five- to six-member committees will meet and wrangle with specific issues tailored to one particular study area. The committees will be guided by consultants hired by the city to help with the update.

After the committees form recommendations, a series of public hearings will be held before the ideas go to the council for final approval. The entire process is expected to take several months, Hamlin said. “We are looking for some type of recommendations to go to the council by spring, 1990.”