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Committee rejects emergency ordinance to dissolve and reconstitute planning board to meet new state requirements
Summary
The County Services Committee voted 4–5 to reject an emergency ordinance that would have dissolved Washington County’s planning board and reconstituted it to meet a new state requirement that a majority of members live in unincorporated areas.
The County Services Committee considered an emergency ordinance (item 8.1) intended to bring Washington County’s planning board into compliance with a recent change in state law (referred to repeatedly in the meeting as Act 519). The ordinance would dissolve the existing planning board and reconstitute it to ensure a majority of members reside in unincorporated areas, as the new statute requires. After extensive debate, the committee voted the ordinance down by show of hands, with a recorded division of 4 in favor and 5 opposed.
County Attorney Lester summarized the statutory change: counties that maintain a planning board must ensure a…
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