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Commissioners discuss permit compliance, ask staff to draft $50,000 "goodwill grants" program
Summary
Klamath County commissioners debated enforcement of long-running permit requests and agreed to have staff develop a transparent "goodwill grants" program, proposed at $50,000, to handle community requests that don't fit current tourism or economic-development grant categories.
A Klamath County commissioner raised concerns about a long-running variance and the absence of the applicant, saying the county has to balance empathy for personal circumstances with the need to enforce permitting rules.
"I have empathy for what’s going on and how the rules are hard to navigate," the commissioner said, "but at the same time there are rules and I sit in a position where I can’t just say you don’t have to follow the rules." The speaker urged applicants to obtain building permits…
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