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Heather Phillips and Diane Dillon revisit the WDO
Bill Hocker | Jul 18, 2014 on: The WDO

[this comes from the end of Peter Jensen's article on the PC hearing for LMR]

Commissioner Heather Phillips started Wednesday’s meeting by asking Planning Director David Morrison to produce a work plan by the commission’s next meeting on wineries’ permitted gallons of production, visitation, traffic impacts, water and waste water systems, and other topics such as how the county interprets the rules for winery development.

That followed a request from Supervisor Diane Dillon on Tuesday to hold a public hearing on winery development at a Board of Supervisors meeting in August.

Morrison said he and his staff are working on that analysis, and he said the ultimate product will be “sober, serious and fact-based.”

“This is serious business, and we need to take it very seriously,” Morrison said. “Public policy is not an overnight issue. It is not resolved overnight. It’s prolonged. It’s messy. It’s debating. The need to start a process is an urgent one, but action may take some time.”