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This Thursday, commissioners will consider several changes to our Land Development Code including two proposals affecting traffic: one good change, proposed by our county transportation planners, and one bad change, proposed by developers (well,...
Needless to say, I’m not invited to the fundraising parties for the re-election of county commissioners Brian Blair & Ken Hagan. But I do have copies of the invitations, so let’s have a look...
The next step toward the Hybrid compromise on our local wetlands regulations is a proposed rule change allowing certain exemptions from our local wetlands rules for agriculture. I’m reminded of this anecdotal conversation between...
Today the developer’s puppets on our County Commission loaded our City-County Planning Commission with development interests. In appointing Hung Mai and Miller Dowdy to 4-year terms on the growth-guiding board, which already has plenty...
Our county commissioners are about to appoint two people to the Planning Commission board that makes recommendations on our Comprehensive Plans for growth in our county and its 3 cities. Developers are pushing for...
This is no way to go about changing our wetland regulations which have been in place for 20 years. After voting to eliminate the whole wetlands division of our Environmental Protection Commission (EPC), along...