From the Email Inbox: Planning Commission Meeting Email

Dear Gramps:

At the Planning Commission Meeting last night a speaker said "not for one second does anyone that participates in our government under the guarantees of the Bill of Rights believes that the public will have any influence on the General Plan." Each member was addressed: "you and you and you and you and you," pointing to each member, "will not have any say on the new General Plan." The speaker said:"The short coming of the General Plan a year and a half ago and now that the developers have taken over and the State thinks it is flawed, they want to fix it." The speaker also said" the only people that will have any say so are Mr. Megna, Mr Koontz, Mr. Schwab and Mr. Jacobsen."

"The zoning code means nothing we have seen it changed for a project. Ferre said she didn't want Drive-throughs or tilt ups in the OAC, but they are good enough for the center of Town on Barton. "

Members of the public were there and were wanting to participate in the General Plan Revisions, in spite of years of being dismissed and ignored by City Officials at nearly all levels.