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I ake up issues and goals one at a time.
That is what the Planning Commission decided last Wednesday to do following a discussion of the public meeting in June to get visions from citizens and a further discussion of where to go from there in revising the Comprehensive Plan.
At the August meeting the planners will select topics tor future public meetings, one issue per meeting. For example they may have an evening focusing on the future of farming and the land use taxation sy stem, a meeting on the village center concept, a meeting on recreation needs and so forth.
For each topic the planners intend to set forth their current thinking on the subject to give interested citizens something to start with.
The August meeting will also include a public hearing on a series of amendments to the zoning ordinance to ban or further restrict commercial operations in agricultural districts. That hearing was originally scheduled for the July meeting but postponed when dealing with the flood occupied much of County Administrator John McCarthy’s attention, and he did not get the notice advertising the amendments in on time.
Most planners felt the meeting on visions had gone well and had been productive.
Chairman Mike Massie said the meeting had been “very positive. So many people like the county the way it is.”
Louis G. “Butch” Zindel, who represents the Board of Zoning Appeals on the Planning Commission, said two things he felt the planners should pick up from that meeting are requiring developers to prove there is sufficient water for their proposed developments and including a section on recreation in the goals portion of the Comprehensive Plan.
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