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What is the least favorite portion of your planning job?
Ultimate pet peeve:
When a proposal for a subdivision comes to planning board with full intentions of utilizing the paper street that was approved 30 years ago in the adjacent subdivision's plan, but the neighbors have all planted trees in the paper street, totally encroaching on it, and once it is learned that an additional 11 lots will be built and feeding into their subdivision, the neighbors become hysterical about the welfare of all the neighborhood children who will have to forgo their god given right to play in the street, and the planning board totally caves and all the lots are funnelled out on to an already over curb cut-ed major road, creating a cul-de-sac much too close to a major intersection.
sigh.
I think KBM's narrative wins the prize!
Mine is the resident who phones to complain that the lot next door has been vacant ever since they moved in 35 years ago, and now the new house going in next door is going to block their view of the {fill in something pretty}.
Damn it people, how many times do I have to say "If you want the view, BUY IT".
And when you become a division or depratment head, add personnel issues.
You gotta love a planner though for creating job security by working on one ZC amendment per year...hmmmm, maybe this year RV parking restrictions, maybe next year a sign inventory...