In the latest Kootenai Environmental Alliance newsletter, executive Adrienne Cronebaugh reports on a special meeting between new Kootenai County Commissioners Marc Eberlein and David Stewart and county planners. She tell Huckleberries that she wrote the report after obtaining a recording of the meeting:

“Start from scratch…write a new Comprehensive Plan and a new Land Use Code in the next year and a half.” That was the directive given to staff at a bizarre “Special Meeting” held by newly elected Kootenai County Commissioners Marc Eberlein and David Stewart. The meeting was held while Commissioner Dan Green was out of town, so it seemed that the rookie Commissioners decided to bring in their own alternate, Brent Reagan, to advise them on how they should proceed. “The new Comp Plan should be as short as the constitution” Reagan advised. Staff were obviously surprised by these orders, as the Agenda for the meeting had been set to discuss the “Phase 1″ technical fixes that the Planning Department had been developing over the last six months to make the County’s current Land Use ordinances more fundamentally sound now. More here.

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