Planning Board to Haul Ass on Policy Review

The planning board got marching orders yesterday to hightail its review of the county's growth policy, The Gazette reports.

Results of the review will be due in late May, three months earlier than usual. The accelerated schedule allows the county council to vote on the policy before their August vacation, The Gazette says.

"The objective is to produce comprehensive tools for managing growth," Royce Hanson, chairman of the planning board, tells The Gazette.

County council prez Marilyn Praisner (District 4) proposed last week to put a six-month lid on approving new development projects. The full council votes on that idea in January.

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