The Planning Commission conducts public hearings concerning land use and zoning issues and makes recommendations to the County Council about how these land use issues should be resolved. Planning Commissioners are not policy makers or legislators and they do not work for the County. Their role is to represent the perspective of local citizens as a counter-balance to the technical perspective of professional planning and engineering staff in a policy advisory capacity to the County Council. Commissioners listen to complex testimony and strive to find an appropriate balance between competing goals and values before submitting their recommendations to the Council.
Planning Commission hearings also give the public and property owners the opportunity to raise issues about proposed land use actions and make recommendations for how these issues should be resolved. |