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Benton County planning commissioners debate narrowing priorities; agree to add comp plan and code updates
Summary
At a regular meeting, the Benton County Planning Commission reviewed an existing list of priorities, proposed removing telecommunications planning, and agreed to add comprehensive-plan and code updates while changing the housing item wording to focus on affordability and availability.
The Benton County Planning Commission discussed and revised its list of long-standing priorities during a work session, proposing several edits and agreeing on new wording and additions.
Commissioners debated whether the commission's priority list should be a long roster of topics to communicate to the public or a short set of items the commission will actively pursue this year. Petra, the county department head overseeing planning, told commissioners the original list dated back several years and had been used to coordinate joint sessions with the Board of Commissioners.
The commission signaled support for three concrete edits to the priorities list: remove 'telecommunications planning' as a priority, change the phrase 'housing affordability and homelessness' to 'housing affordability and availability,'…
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