Photo by Dick Conoboy
Mon, May 23, 2016, 5:21 am Dick Conoboy
As the city slides down the razor blade of the comprehensive plan process, the Mayor’s Neighborhood Advisory Commission took up the discussion in a lively session on 18 May. Twenty or so journalism students from WWU got an earful and a bird’s eye view of the reality of city planning. Several members of MNAC [Mayor’s Neighborhood Advisory Committee] had expressed in February a desire to discuss the comp plan but the session was delayed from March into April at the request of the mayor who was to be out of town. At the April meeting with the mayor in attendance, the agenda topic suddenly morphed into a discussion of the “process” of the comp plan when it was the clear desire of some representatives to discuss the actual plan elements or at least the most contentious ones. […]
noisy waters northwest 