Meeting with Commissioner Jewell

I had a good visit with Commissioner Jewell, who was very generous with his time. We talked about the community wind ordinance, and as a result I have edited my earlier post on that topic.

I had been prepared to limit the conversation to the community wind issue, but Commissioner Jewell brought up a couple of other important issues on his own.

We talked about the upper county well moratorium, and he helped fill in some of the blanks in my understanding of how we got to where we are. If only there were a way to take all the mental energy - - on all sides -- that's gone into that issue, and use it to generate electricity! Anyway, I'll write more about this later.

He noted that there have been past abuses of real estate development codes, but that those abuses happened before his time, and, he said, they are no longer happening. He agreed that the past abuses still reverberate, and that they are influencing some things that are happening now.