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Residents urge council to intervene after planning commission votes on comp plan research; council and staff seek clarity

5453462 · June 3, 2025
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At a public comment session Fort Thomas residents said the planning commission acted quickly on research findings and bypassed broader council discussion about conducting a new public survey for the comprehensive plan; councilmembers asked for a meeting with the commission before major changes.

Resident Joan Ferris urged the City Council to view the full May 21 planning and zoning meeting video and said the commission “reduced to ashes” council-level discussion about commissioning a new public survey to inform an updated comprehensive plan by voting, she said, to accept existing research without broader review.

Ferris said the planning commission read a staff memo and approved a motion quickly, and she told council that the commission’s action appeared to short-circuit recent council conversations about a new…

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