Facing criticism about a subcommittee meeting that was held on Sunday afternoon at a real estate office on Main Street, Mathews County Planning Commission chairman Billy Cook addressed the issue head-on during the commission’s regular monthly meeting on Tuesday night. A Mathews resident had complained about the meeting on social media, where it was characterized as secretive, with an incorrect address published, and questions arose about deals for the sell-off of public lands. Former supervisor Mike Walls questioned the meeting during public comment period at the beginning of Tuesday’s meeting, saying that having a public meeting on Sunday of a holiday weekend was “not well thought-out.” Beverly Childress of Hudgins questioned what was so urgent that a meeting had to be held on a holiday Sunday at a real estate office, and she wanted to know what piece of property the county was selling. Cook explained that the subcommittee’s purpose is work on revisions to the county’s comprehensive p...