The Pulaski County Planning Board meets tomorrow afternoon on the proposed land use plan for the Lake Maumelle watershed. Clean water advocates want a delay on a decision until experts can evaluate changes inserted in the plan by Deltic Timber that allow denser residential development (many thousand more homes) in the watershed, the majority of which is owned by Deltic, the developer of Chenal Valley.

County Judge Buddy Villines is distributing a memo justifying the change in plans favored by Deltic. That memo follows on the jump, as does an objection from architect Mark Robertson, who happens to be a candidate for state legislature next year in the Hillcrest/Capitol View neighborhood.

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