Village Council Hears from Consultant

As of Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Pinehurst Village Council got its first report from a consultant hired to review its development ordinances during a work session Tuesday night.

Craig Lewis from The Lawrence Group gave an initial overview of the village’s development ordinances, including positives and negatives.

Among the areas of concern listed by the consultants were the village’s unnecessarily complex and rigid engineering standards, too much discretion vested with staff, failure of the local development community to deliver quality public infrastructure, the village’s lack of control of its utilities, the failure of the comprehensive plan and the village’s PDO to deal with non-single family development and the fact that development in the village is viewed by the public as entertainment.

The presentation was preliminary phase of the of the review process. Lewis told the council that the they would come back to the council with more information and analysis in 2-3 months.

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Steve 2 years, 3 months ago

They just said what any one you ask living or working in Pinehurst Could have told you with out spending all that money. Will any thing change ,hope so, but no way.

Arestorer 2 years, 3 months ago

I was thinking the same thing!!! Was there not anyone local that could have told them this, without spending money on a Consulting firm?? What a waist of $'s...

ncsnafu1 2 years, 3 months ago

Anyone attending and hearing the consultant could see that the council members did not like what they were hearing especially concerning the need for more "OPEN SPACE". In the end, the study will be just another $45K binder on a shelf somewhere in village hall.

CSmithson 2 years, 3 months ago

So Doug, are you one of the people the consultant indicates like to go to meetings for entertainment? :-)

ncsnafu1 2 years, 3 months ago

@CSmithson: Entertaining they are although if the council listens to the consultant, the meetings will become more like a police state without any public input. It was clear that the consultant was not a big fan of "public input" and suggested the need for more quasi-judicial meetings which does nothing but limit public input as most are not "experts". Thinking of coming to your meetings for some real fun.