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December 11, 2006
County Plan Gets Weberrific
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| I have to give the City of Chico credit
for such a great web site. The vast amounts of information available there
has allowed my blog to go from annoying and uninformed to annoying, uninformed,
and chock-full-of-links. The world-wide-web has allowed people with limited interest in local politics and marginal understanding of city policy to learn more about what's going on around them. So it's been really helpful to city staff and elected officials. The county seems to be adopting the web as an information source with their general plan update (takes us out to 2030). See http://www.buttegeneralplan.net for the regularly updated agenda and information related to the plan update. I'm hoping that since the county is web savvy they are also checking this blog for any advice on the county's future direction. Here are a couple of things I think they should discuss. First, they should consider the increase in county population when global warming floods San Francisco and LA in a few years. Second, there's no mention of flying cars, which I think are just around the corner. I've talked to some folks on the plan update task force (30 people selected by Supervisors) and they said after a couple of meetings it was still pretty touchy-feely. So I checked the topics for the 8 planned meetings. Here they are. 11-16-2006 Friendly Chat and Poetry Reading 12-07-2006 Discussion of Favorite Road Sign Colors 1-15-2007 If The County Could Be Any Animal In the World... 3-26-2007 Discuss Dr. Phil's Principles of "Guy-Q" for Women 5-12-2007 Watch "An Inconvenient Truth" DVD 7-06-2007 Watch "Road Warrior" DVD 10-31-2007 Costume Party and Halloween Ball 12-12-2007 Finalize County Plan and Forward to Supes. Of course I'm having a little fun. The 12-12-2007 meeting is about something totally different. But in reality the county setting up a web site for this process is a good step. If Butte County can provide online documents as well as the City of Chico we'd all be better off. The General Plan update seems to show they're moving in that direction. |
Posted by Lon at December 11, 2006 09:26 AM