San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury
• 2006-2007
Staff Report on the Sale of Oceano Dunes Parcels: Errors or Deception?
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⚠️ Este contenido ha sido traducido automáticamente. El texto original en inglés es la versión oficial. La traducción puede contener errores.
Findings and Recommendations 3 findings
F1
The failure to include the “Figure 4 map” and references to it in the staff report was at best inept staff performance or at worst deliberate deception.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
The Planning Commission should require relevant source documents accompany reports from the Planning and Building Department.
F2
The staff report was a crucial element in an important decision by the Planning Commission and it was only public testimony at the Commission hearing that prevented a decision counter to approved land use policy.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
The Planning Commission should direct Planning and Building Department staff to indicate to the Planning Commission if any source documentations were altered in preparing reports and provide reasons for such alterations.
F3
The staff report concluded that the sale of County land to State Parks was in compliance with County land use policy, a conclusion consistent with the report only because of the omission of the “Figure 4 map” and related text.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
Training procedures for staff charged with report development should be reviewed and changed so as to prevent the omission or misrepresentation of significant documentary evidence.
Conclusions 1
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CL1The omissions of the map and related language made possible the erroneous conclusion that the sale would be in compliance with County land use policy. This error was not corrected until the omitted map and text references to it were revealed during the public input session before the Planning Commission. This report was designed to inform important environmental and financial decisions. The appearance of deliberately changing approved policy documents to indicate the 3 opposite of their intent is disturbing. Planning staff are not policy makers and misrepresenting approved policy cannot be tolerated.
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