Board accepts late Critical Area Commission letter into record; members question timing
A letter from the Critical Area Commission arrived the night before the hearing and was formally accepted into the record; several board members said the tardiness limited their and the applicant's ability to digest the comments and discussed how much weight to give the submission.
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During the Cox case, staff disclosed a Critical Area Commission letter that had been received the night before the hearing. The chair admitted the letter into the record as staff exhibit 11 after confirming all parties had copies that morning. Several board members expressed concern that the commission had not followed the board’s updated procedures for submitting exhibits in hybrid meetings and that receiving substantive comments shortly before the hearing hinders meaningful review.
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