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Resident urges CRC to limit development density, restore recycling and seek budget transparency

5897094 · October 6, 2025
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Summary

A long‑standing Clay County resident used public comment to urge the Charter Review Commission to consider amendments to limit residential density, restore county recycling and improve budget transparency; county staff offered to brief the commission on the county budget and state preemption limits were noted.

Richard Klimsman, a resident of Middleburg, told the Clay County Charter Review Commission during public comment that the commission should consider amendments to limit residential density, restore county recycling and increase budget transparency.

Klimsman, who identified himself as living at 1985 Temuco Trail in Middleburg, urged commissioners and commission members not to remove the county’s charter and described development pressure and past changes to parcel and lot density as his main concerns. “The charter is Clay County’s own little US constitution,” Klimsman said, arguing the…

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