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Letter: Are supervisor candidates prepared?

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

In 2010, Mathews Board of Supervisors’ meeting became my priority. I discovered the most important decisions and discussions came at the end. I recognized accountability, transparency and honesty were muddled. The Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission, an unelected regional entity designed to direct, connect and assist the surrounding counties of Mathews, Gloucester, Middlesex, King and Queen and King William and the towns of Tappahannock, Urbanna and West Point, had increasing influence over the BOS. Members of the board consisted of one each from BOS, resident at large and county administrators. So I also started attending monthly MPPDC meetings to observe.

As concerns were surfacing regarding implementation of land use, development, zoning, water plans, septic system restrictions, ditches and drainage, dredging, identical comprehensive plans, coastal restriction zones and many other issues, more residents from Mathews and other districts also...

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