What is the Natural Features Phase II TST?
The Natural Features Phase II TST (Topic Specific Team) is an advisory committee to the City Council. Their role is to examine specific topics in greater depth. Their role is more analytical and technical, designed to help give wise direction to the city. This TST will focus on developing a program for balancing development and conservation of natural features in Damascus. The mayor has appointed the following members to the Natural Features Phase II TST: Bruce Adams, Diana Bradshaw, John Ferguson, Greg Jordan, and Keith Marshall. The Natural Features II TST is working on the second phase of the Natural Features project. The Economic, Social, Environmental and Energy (ESEE) analysis is the crucial step in weighing the relative importance of these four factors against each other to derive a recommendation to allow, limit, or prohibit activities in the City’s significant natural resource sites. The ESEE is the second step in the City’s Goal 5 program, which includes an inventory of signi