A friend sent this and I thought it might be of interest to the participants of our little fracas here.
"SOA telling everyone that Becnel was just using the current NOPC as a clean up NOPC. See the county's comments in blue so far. If becnel can get this NOPC approved most of his projects would be reviewed as less than minor and therefore there would be no opportunity for residents to publicly object to them. There are many pitfalls in this as you can see from the staff's comments. Becnel and his hired guns have sold your board a load of crap if they think these changes don't affect their rights and future development. Please note there is no submission of a comprehensive traffic analysis on how circulation of traffic affects the resort or US98 with all these changes. He's trying to rely on a study from 1984 for traffic at best. Please also note he's trying to change the definition of open space in order to bring about compliance. He's not fixing or preserveing anything, just changing definitions. I thought you'd like to know the truth on what's coming before the planning commisson on the 27th and the BOCC on DEC 2nd at a special meeting. This is the county getting the wool pulled over its eyes by Dana Mathews and company."
First time I've tried to upload and this is a very large file, so if my attempt to shorten the process does not work, please do your best if you in fact are interested to get the gist of the staff responses to Becnel's attorneys' requests that the county ignore the rules that us mere mortals are expected to comply with.
As there are quite a number of pages to attach and a file error with p. 5 and more after p. 11, l'll split this up and finish tomorrow.
