The members of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee to the West Downtown Specific Plan have been announced. A solid majority of the members, seven of the thirteen, have close ties to the City Council. Three are current or former City Council members (Simmons, Skrel, Abrams), and four are current or former City Commission appointees (Darling, Fotheringham, Lucas, Gorny). For a process which advertises broad-based community involvement, this certainly sounds a lot like Politburo-style central planning.
