COUNTY SEEKS PLANNING COMMISSION APPLICANTS

Clatsop County is seeking applications for openings on the county Planning Commission.
Two seats are up for appointment to four-year terms running until June, of 2014; one seat is up for reappointment to a term running until 2013; and there also is a vacancy on a fourth seat whose term ends June 30th of 2011.
The Planning Commission is a seven-member volunteer panel that holds land-use hearings, implements the county’s zoning ordinances and comprehensive land-use plan and advises the Board of Commissioners on land-use issues.
The Planning Commission bylaws require that no more than two members be residents of incorporated cities in the county, and that the remaining five members be residents of various geographic areas of the county. The bylaws also prohibit more than two members who work in real estate, and well as more than two members who work in the same business or profession. Of the three current commissioners whose seats are not up for appointment, one currently lives inside an incorporated city.
The Planning Commission regularly meets the second Tuesday of each month, in Astoria, beginning at 10 a.m.
Applications for the position will be taken through June 8, 2010. The Board of Commissioners will make the appointments.
Application forms are available from the County Manager’s office at 800 Exchange St., Suite, 410, Astoria, by calling (503) 325-1000 or online at www.co.clatsop.or.us.
For more information contact Will Caplinger, Development Services Manager, at (503) 325-8611 or by email at wcaplinger@co.clatsop.or.us.