January 16, 2009

Talking about nothing - political committees

Spent the last five hours at a meeting for our County Planning Commission listening to public comment. As I mentioned, a developer wants to drop a development into our rural area (27 miles from the job market) and a number of people are trying to block this. This is also the time when the County 20 Year Plan gets decided and there is the question of opening up the land use to commercial and industrial development -- again, 27 miles from Bellingham. The general thought is that the Planning Commission will just rubber-stamp what the Planners want to do but it was good to get our voices heard and the Commission was very surprised at how many people showed up (over 100). I am reminded of Otto Von Bismarck: Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. Posted by DaveH at January 16, 2009 12:27 AM
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