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Committee approves amendment to require two-thirds of county planning board members live in unincorporated areas in select counties
Summary
The Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee advanced Senate Bill 87, as amended, which would require at least two-thirds of voting members on county planning boards in certain large counties to live in unincorporated areas.
Senator Mark Johnson, R-District 17, presented Senate Bill 87 to the Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee and described the bill as an effort to ensure county planning boards include members who live under the boards’ jurisdiction. “The purpose of this bill is to make sure that those people, that live in those areas are governed by people that share their situation,” Johnson said, citing concerns that Pulaski County’s planning board had a majority of members who did not live in the…
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