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JUST LIKE THAT. No serious preliminary warning to the public. A flat announcement, after months of secret meetings and secret dealing, and with what amounted to a pre-judging of any information that might have been brought out in a re-zoning hearing.

So eager are the Supervisors to ram this project down everyone’s throats that even the normal procedure of hearings is being scrapped—possibly in an attempt to head off a growing, if belated, tide of Protest. A joint planning commission-board of supiervisors hearing has been set for simultaneous consideration of both re-zoning and use permit considerations—with six of the seven Supervisors on record as already in favor of the re-zoning and the use permits. How about that, democracy fans?

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