Rebuilding the planning commission

Whitman County commissioners Dean Kinzer, left, and Art Swannack, right, confer Dec. 4 with Katrin Kunz, assistant county planner, Brandon Kruger, operations manager for county road/bridge maintenance, and Mark Storey, Public Works director, on a preamble to a public hearing about a lack of planning commission members. A proposed change would make it so the commission would have two members appointed per district with three at-large members, including no more than four people from any one district. The intended nine-member commission has operated with seven people for the past two years.

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