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April 17, 2008
DOES THE CITY REALLY NEED A PLANNING COMMISSION??
After watching the majority of the City Council overrule the Planning Commission (on many occasions), perhaps they should eliminate the Commission and speed-up the planning process without its hindrance.
A couple of recent examples include the Fogarty property development (now in litigation) and more recently the approval of The Avenues Neighborhood Improvement Plan (PLAN) which was recommended to the City Council after several time consuming public hearings and discussions.
The Commission recommended eliminating from the PLAN changes to The Esplanade which included reducing vehicle lanes to 10’ and placing a bike lane of each side of the northbound and southbound vehicle lanes (not withstanding that bikes have the side drives available for their use), obviously, setting-up a dangerous and accident prone situation. This recommendation, originally included in the PLAN, is contrary to the City’s General Plan and was completely ignored by the majority of the voting Councilmembers, since a novice planner told them that it conformed to the General Plan.
Posted by Fred at April 17, 2008 06:51 PM
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