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Monroe County commissioners fail to approve Highlands Parcel E ordinance after unclear roll call
Summary
At a work session, the Monroe County Board of Commissioners declined to approve ordinance 20 26 dash 12 (Highlands Parcel E) after an unclear roll call; the chair said a 'yes' would have allowed the developer's requested private-road planned-unit development, but the motion failed 0-2-1.
The Monroe County Board of Commissioners failed to approve ordinance 20 26 dash 12, covering Highlands Parcel E, during a work session when members produced an ambiguous roll call and the motion did not carry.
The chair opened the item by saying an earlier vote had been unclear and explained how to interpret a new roll call: a “yes” vote would allow the planned-unit development to proceed as the developer, Mr. Whininger, requested, including keeping a road private; a “no” vote would follow the planning commission’s position that changes were required, including making the road public. “Yes vote would be to allow, the planned unit development to enter into a bridal. It would be to do what Mr. Whininger wants and has requested, so that’s a yes vote,” the chair said.
After calling the roll, the chair announced what she described as “2 nays and 1 abstention,” and later summarized the result as failing: “So it doesn’t pass. It fails,” she said. The tally the chair recorded was yes: 0, no: 2, abstain: 1.
The transcript does not record individual named yes/no votes tied to commissioner names beyond the short roll-call responses given during the session. The chair framed the choice as between approving the developer’s requested changes and following the planning commission’s recommendations for additional revisions.
Because the motion failed, no change to the planning commission’s recommendations was approved at that meeting. The board immediately moved on to other work-session items.
What’s next: The failed vote leaves the planning commission’s requested changes in place pending any future, clarified action by the commissioners or further proceedings on the Highlands Parcel E item.
