Stakeholders Committee For Oconee County Comprehensive Plan Asks For More Control Over Its Work Schedule

Justin Crighton, a planner with the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission, got a polite pushback Tuesday night as he presented his proposed timetable for the work of the Stakeholders Committee for the Oconee County Comprehensive Plan at the group’s first meeting.

Crighton proposed five subsequent meetings of the citizen committee, including a session on March 14 to begin discussing land use issues in the county.

Several of the members said the timetable was premature, arguing that the citizens needed to get to know each other first and develop their own strategy for producing the Comprehensive Plan by the state-set deadline of June 30, 2018.

Crighton countered with a modified plan that brings the group back together in a month with a more open assignment to discuss how to proceed in the future.

That meeting of the Stakeholders Committee on March 14 will follow a general session with the public.

Crighten said he will go over with the public the broad strategy for producing the state-mandated revision of the county’s 2008 Comprehensive Plan, much as he did on Tuesday night with the Stakeholders Committee.

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Pictured: Committee Member Ed Perkins.