The public hearings tonight on the 2030 Comprehensive Plan and the newly minted secret draft of the water management plan were quite interesting, presenting much fodder for blogging. I'll start with this:
If you attended the last public opportunity for input on the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, you may remember that one of the planners, on being questioned about why the various "sensitive area" maps remained in the plan draft even after deletion of the paragraphs that previously had referred to them, told us all that the maps really didn't mean anything.
I asked about that tonight, saying that if the maps didn't mean anything, why doesn't the draft say that.
I was told that what the planner really meant was that the maps were in there purely for informational purposes only, and not to imply any policy statement. So I suggested that the draft include a statement to that effect. It seemed to be met with a positive response.
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