Special City Commission Meeting - Saturday, 7/28

Click here for back-up material, which was just made available on the city's website at 10:45 a.m. this (Friday) morning.  The first part of the meeting will be devoted to interviewing law firms to provide interim legal services for the city in between now - with the departure of the City Attorney and the Assistant City Attorney - and to when the City Commission ultimately hires another person for city attorney - or finds that working with a law firm is a more efficient and effective way to go.  Interesting that the memo from staff notes the large number of lawsuits facing the city.

The last item results from certification of petition signatures initiated by the Respectful Planning PAC. Here are the options the City Commission has for the meeting tomorrow (from Pam Lopez, City Clerks memo):

Clearly, option #4 is the best option.  If the municipal elections are moved to March - which will also be on the ballot - , this measure can be put on that ballot.  After all, residents and investors have waited eight years for resolution to our Master Plan process that was designed to make sure that the city has a coherent set of Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations - what is an extra six to eight months more of uncertainty?  There is no need to rush something to the ballot that confuses the issue more.  Second reading on the Comprehensive Plan is scheduled for August 8th.  That document is the result of years of compromise and many pairs of eyes examining it in extreme levels of detail.  Can we just get on with the business at hand and stop with the political sideshows?

There is plenty that can allay the FEARS of those who signed the petition (whatever they were told) in the LDRs.  Rome is not burning and the wolf is not at the door, only to the extent that certain people continue to create confusion when and where we don't need it.