FGPA process changes / Mead Valley

Representing the Rural Association of Mead Valley, urged keeping the eight-year plan and advisory councils, warning that removing them invites warehouse sprawl that has devastated Latino communities like Bloomington.

A Mead Valley resident called foundation changes the county's most consequential land-use decisions and said the proposal removes every safeguard; noted Ordinance 348 already allows off-cycle changes for state housing compliance.

With the Mid Valley Coalition for Clean Air, said the proposal hides how residents were ignored in the last cycle, including a recent 103-acre residential-to-industrial rezone approved over unanimous local opposition.

A Mead Valley landowner whose family has held 8.46 acres for 40 years supported the proposal, saying the eight-year cycle delayed her family's plan to complete zoning to light industrial.