Bill Hocker | Jan 8, 2015

New year will feature new debate on winery development

At the planning commission meeting on Jan 7th, Director Morrison notified the commission of an upcoming joint Planning Commission-BOS workshop to begin the process of looking at development directions in the county going forward. He set the date for March 10th.

It is an initial meeting to begin further discussions this year to address future development issues in the county. When this process was initially proposed some months ago the focus was on the WDO. But, as Mr. Morrison indicated in December, the discussion has been expanded to development issues that go beyond just the WDO. Noting that the county is currently 80% urban and 20% rural, he stressed that the county and the municipalities would have to work together on proposals.

Community activism has been largely responsible for the increased scrutiny of the cumulative impacts that current development practices are having and gong to have on the county. It is up to all of the community groups that have just been born, or operated in isolation for many years to join together to represent the one constituency that has consistently been left out of previous planning decisions - the residents.

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