The most frustrating part is that I warned previous planning chair Janet Kittams that they need to say why they are recusing themselves, what item, who they work for, etc. She blew me off, but no surprise, they all eat from the same government trough. In fact, it is in city ordinance and state law that they MUST disclose why they are recusing themselves. I noticed a couple of years ago that the Planning (rubber stamp) Commission started pushing stuff in the consent agenda. And for good reason, the members have so many conflicts they started pushing those conflicts into a consent agenda so they would seem ethical. But when you recuse yourself you MUST tell us WHY and what ITEM. The new chair, Bradyn Neises, who works for Bender Realtors, has a clear conflict, but he can’t tell us what it is. Our city government is so corrupt it is almost laughable. The planning commission should consist of RETIRED developers who don’t have a skin in the game, or just regular folks who work in development or construction. The planning commission is made up of grifters. Every single one of them has grifted from the city, and they sit on this board to make sure the grifting continues. That’s it, there is NOT one single person on that board that is not benefitting from taxpayer revenue, and it is disgusting.
It also got better at the end of the meeting where the chair decided he had some muscle after eating cookies in the anti-room while they were approving his projects and he cut off a public comment inputer before they were adjourned. It was a serious DICK move, and totally militant anti-open government. Why do they even record these meetings? Why not just do it in an opium den in the basement of Carnegie? You obviously don’t want to be honest and forthright with the public, so why keep putting on the act? The Planning Commission is a ‘Basket of Grifters’ and little else. It’s time to ween these sucklings.
I have been to 3 planning and zoning commission meetings and they never last more than 5 minutes. Do these people want the job or not, There never seems to be any debate at these meetings unless there is a huge hot topic on a specific section of land, these meetings are a waste of time if these commissioners refuse to do their job.
What’s especially disturbing is they know what they’re doing isn’t ethical and it’s stealing from the public at large. In a court of law it’s purgery with jail. In a larger application, it’s a prison term. Politicians are unofficially exempt from punishment. These criminals we’ve learned not to trust.