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DRC annual training emphasizes open-meeting rules, recusal and conditions-of-approval limits
Summary
Attorney Josh Whitehead led the commission through Tennessee open-meetings rules, ex parte communications, disclosure/recusal standards and the legal tests (nexus and rough proportionality) that underlie conditions of approval.
Josh Whitehead, planning and appeals counsel, delivered the Design Review Commission’s annual training during the Jan. 28 meeting, reviewing state open-meetings law, ethics and the legal limits on conditions the commission can attach to approvals.
Nut graf: The training covered three areas commissioners may encounter frequently: (1) Tennessee open-meetings requirements and the risk of pre-deliberation or private communications; (2) conflicts-of-interest, financial disclosure and the proper use of abstentions versus recusal; and (3) the legal standard for conditions of approval…
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