The county doesn't need a planning department.
The commissioners take their cues from developers and lobbyists not from their professional staff -- a staff that painstakingly reviews future developments. Who needs them if their recommendation are consistently ignored? As there is a staff of 35 and let's guesstimate the medium income is $50,000....well that would save the county almost two million dollars. The Commissioners could use that money to entertain the lobbyists and developers who feed their mouths with talking points....talking points against their own staff mind you. (see yesterday's post).
The Planning Advisory Board, even lower down in the food chain, out of 4 applications to move the line - they transmitted 3 of them: two with "approval and transmit" and one with just a "transmit." The Planning Department recommended AGAINST all 4. See, no one pays attention to the experts even the volunteer appointments on a crappy board.
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The PAB is a clone of the commission. That's what you get with boards appointed by commissioners. How many of the PAB members have business ties to the construction industry? My guess is most of them. The 3 stars were Christy Sherous, Jay Sousna, and new member Pamela Gray.
The PAB members should make public their (and their spouses) source of incomes; it will not shock anyone to find a preponderence of real estate, construction supplies and other construction related businesses. Guess their votes delivered compaign dollars to the commissioners who appointed them.
Have you ever seen a more crooked team of "experts on wheels" than Rob Curtis, Kathy Sweetapple and Andy Dolkart? It is sad to see Guillermo Olmedillo join them. Maybe that explains the out of control development under his tenure. His student Diane O'Quinn did a fine job of keeping the momentum going. Thank God for an honest person like Subrata Basu. His department issued some of the best evaluations I have ever read; you know, those recommendations the PAB ignored.
AGREE with above comment.
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