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should direct their efforts to tightening up the process.”
She said the planners and supervisors did not represent themselves as experts, but in a democracy it is important for ordinary citizens to be involved. Later she said that those areas of govememtn that have been turned over to experts are the least healthy parts of our democracy.
Sid Gottlieb, who represents the Board of Zoning Appeals on the Planning Commission, said he had changed his mind on the issue. He voted against the original sludge ban he said, “For what I thought were good reasons. I don’t like to see people get pushed around unless it is absolutely necessary.” He said he was also uncomfortable with a total ban on one agricultural process when other potentially hazardous agricultural processes are allowed.
He said he has a background in chemistry and soils but in reviewing the stack of literature assembled by County Administrator John McCarthy “I realized the question is not black and white but different shades of grey.”
He said what convinced him was the small acreage that could qualify for sludge against “unprovem indications there were some hazards. The emphasis in the county is protecting its pristineness. It’s better to edge that way.” f
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