Amador County – The Amador County Board of Supervisors this week postponed its next meeting on the county General Plan update, until possibly May or June, to allow people to read the latest version of the documents.
Supervisors issued a Planning Department press release Tuesday saying: “In light of expressed concerns and requests for more time to adequately review the preliminary draft General Plan Update documents released earlier this month, it has been decided to cancel the Joint Meeting of the Amador County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors scheduled for Monday, April 4.”
The release said: “Another meeting will be scheduled and notice will be given once a date has been set. Possible alternate dates being considered are the end of May to the middle of June.”
The statement apologized for delay but said “our overriding desire is to provide all parties with enough time to adequately review the documents.
The Planning Department announced March 8 that the “preliminary draft General Plan, glossary and implementation plan” were open for public review, and that the April 4 meeting (which was canceled) was for the Joint panel to review the documents, but “not for the purpose of taking public comment on the merit of what is contained or proposed in the documents.”
Several members of the Mother Lode Taxed Enough Already Party spoke out against the notice. Peter Carisetti of Jackson Pines said it has “160 pages of new material” and it “smells of Obama health care.” Virginia Manner said not having public input “is against our personal rights,” and she and others asked for more time to read the document.
Vince Destigter of Amador Citizens for Responsible Government asked Supervisors to “please disregard staff’s advice and allow corrections and amendments” to the document at the next General Plan update meeting. A woman said: “I downloaded that plan and I couldn’t even read it. It’s got too many funny words in it.”
Supervisor Chairman John Plasse told them, “I’ll take the fire” about the announcement, which said that the purpose of the meeting was for the “joint panel to review these documents to ensure they contain the information and items on which direction was given at the previous joint meetings.”
Plasse said after compiling and distilling down the information received after several years, they allowed staff to take the comments and place them into the documents. He said “from there we were hoping to avoid rehashing the same issues over and over again.” He said the meeting was “for us to verify” that staff had accurately followed through on direction given.
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