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Council narrows membership rules for new Salisbury Planning Commission; agrees to move ordinance forward
Summary
Council members discussed residency and membership counts for a newly independent Salisbury Planning Commission, agreed to require at least three commissioners to reside inside city municipal boundaries, and directed staff to place the ordinance on a forthcoming legislative agenda for final action.
Salisbury’s proposed ordinance to establish a standalone city Planning Commission returned to the council’s July 14 work session for discussion of member residency and commission size.
City Attorney and staff drafts had proposed that members could live in the “Greater Salisbury area” — defined as ZIP codes 21801 or 21804 — rather than strictly inside municipal boundaries. Council debated whether at least three or four commissioners should be city residents and whether the body should have five or seven total…
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