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Planning commissioners dispute chair's comments to county board after construction exclusion removed from moratorium
Summary
Members of the Butler County Planning Commission criticized Chairman Roger Topil for speaking at a Board of Supervisors hearing after the county board removed a sentence excluding already-underway construction from the commission's moratorium resolution. Commissioners discussed the procedural and ethical implications and affirmed the upcoming administrative steps.
Butler County Planning Commission members raised concerns at their March 18 meeting about a change the Board of Supervisors made to a moratorium resolution the commission had approved days earlier.
Chairman Roger Topil opened the public hearing and noted the Board's Resolution 2026-07 was identical to the Planning Commission's Resolution 2026-04 except for the deletion of a single sentence: "To exclude projects already in physical construction, building started prior to the date of this resolution, with concrete evidence that construction has commenced;"…
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