We are closing in on wrapping up the land use chapter and on the eve of discussing with the Board of Supervisor the 27 Land Use Applications and I thought a ‘review of the bidding’ might be helpful. The future land use modeling effort introduced in this cycle of the comp plan was intended to … [Read more…]
Executive Summary The 28 Sep and 5 Oct PCWG meetings will ask Commissioners to evaluate the Preferred Scenario Framework Map/ Future Land Use Map (FLUP). it is the next step before the submission of a conceptual 2045 Land Use Map to the Board of Supervisors (BoS) on 7 Oct. The submission is part of a … [Read more…]
“Growth is not a certainty like death and taxes but in James City, it is not likely to be a passing fad, either.” Jack Edwards, Chairman James City County Board of Supervisors 1985 James City County is on a precipice; that a continuation of past zoning and land use policies will bring about a fiscal, … [Read more…]
The Governor’s recently released his final plan for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP III) designed to reduce pollutants in the Commonwealth’s river basins shows that James City County is going to meet those requirements without much difficulty. However, the Governor is asking the county to do more. That’s an important request, but … [Read more…]
I don’t know what your reaction was to the receipt of the two online surveys asking for feedback on E-learning 3.0, but I trashed both. To soon to say which part of the course I liked the best since we were not even halfway through it. However, this week’s task, … [Read more…]
Now that I have awarded myself my first Doin’Stuff badge, I now need to do the three parts of the task. I created my WordPress blog on Doin Stuff with a post called elearn 3.0 Week 6 Recognition Task (which I hope you are reading). When Stephen provides the document, I can enter my RSS … [Read more…]
After becoming completely frustrated with the MS-DOS command line I walked away and bought my first Mac in 1985 – the computer for the rest of us – with its point and click substitute of the command line and a What you see is What you get (Wysiwyg) user interface. This weeks Resource task brought … [Read more…]
My internet identity journey started with Web 2.0/CCK08 and the beginnings of trying to internalize what Stephen meant when he said “that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks (of people and machine). Exposed for the first time to the … [Read more…]
A big THANK YOU to Jenny for responding to my challenge task with her recent response “E-Learning 3.0: The Human versus the Machine” Jenny answers the question of what makes humans unique from a machine by saying that “a human being is able to relate to something ‘Other’ than itself that exists apart from us, … [Read more…]
I think I get the idea of AI and neural networks and that a graph is an abstraction of human functions like the zoo of neural networks described in The Neural Network Zoo . However, I was a bit stumped with the week’s task to create a model graph besides the social network graph that Stephen … [Read more…]
