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Commissioners urge clearer community goals, question value of public hearings; LAFCO to schedule workshop
Summary
A Sutter LAFCO commissioner criticized the value of public hearings and urged the commission to define community goals and quality-of-life expectations; commissioners agreed to place a workshop or agenda item explaining LAFCO's role and discussing goals for affected communities.
Commissioner Elphick on Nov. 13 urged Sutter LAFCO to examine whether and how public hearings affect commission decisions and to adopt clearer goals for quality of life across the LAFCO area.
"Why even do it if we already know where we're going, you know, and there is no open discussion on like the committee or the board that okay, we have this input from the public," Elphick said, pressing that commissioners need time to "sit…
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