P & Z canceling agenda item on CVE golf course — called “shameful”
Dear Editor:
Regardless of the merits — or lack thereof — of the proposal to put a driving range/restaurant/bar on the back nine of the golf course at CVE, the decision to cancel an agenda item scheduled for a public hearing because TOO many concerned citizens show up is shameful.
Did the City think that there wouldn’t be a massive turnout once the CVE community learned what was to be discussed?
If our elected officials and their appointed boards can develop a Comprehensive Land Use Plan, they should be able to make a plan for handling the crowd that shows up when they try to alter it.
I wonder how the developers would feel if they showed up at the rescheduled meeting and were told it was too crowded to allow them in — but the meeting would go on anyway.
Amendment 4 may have been defeated — but the right of citizens to oppose development, literally in their back yard, will never be — unless elected officials care to turn PUBLIC meetings into PRIVATE ones by ‘clearing the room.’
Jeff Chester
Deerfield Beach