PORT HUENEME : Council Disbands Planning Panel
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The Port Hueneme City Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to disband the city’s Planning Commission and assume sole power to hear applications for building projects.
The five-member commission will be dissolved in 30 days. As its last act of office, on April 1, the commission will hear the city’s proposal to build a $2.3-million oceanfront recreational-vehicle resort on the last 10 remaining undeveloped acres of Hueneme Beach Park.
The council decided to eliminate the commission because the city is largely built out. In taking the action, the city becomes the first in California to deem its planning board obsolete and disband it, according to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research.
The council’s action came over the objection of most of the commissioners, who criticized elimination of a public forum on development projects that now will be left entirely to the council to decide upon.
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