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Corrales residents criticize edits to volunteer comprehensive-plan draft; council schedules review
Summary
Multiple residents and volunteer committee supporters told the council that an administration-edited 'redline' version of the comprehensive plan removed committee input and watered down community priorities; councilors and staff said planning-and-zoning will review redline changes before council consideration.
Residents and several members of the volunteer comprehensive-plan review committee told the council they were blindsided by an edited version of the draft plan that they said removed language and weakened recommendations compiled over more than a year of public work.
Sabine Schroeder told the council the redacted version "deleted" villagers' input and diluted committee work; Bill Perkins said the administration's edits felt like "treating its citizens with contempt" and urged the governing body to support the committee's draft. Fred Hashimoto summarized the contention with a quote he attributed to a committee member: "The…
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