Council limits planning meetings

The Oct. 28 council meeting was about planning commission procedures. Marna Hanneman, the planning commission chair, was upset that at the previous planning commission meeting, which was chaired by Carol Hedlin because Ms. Hanneman was absent, the commissioners listened to a group of La Conner citizens who asked to meet with the commission to discuss issues of concerns which will affect future town plans.

The commission had a quorum and, with the advice and counsel of the town planner that those meetings would need to be public and published, voted to have a special meeting on Nov. 1 to have a...