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Gartner right about convoluted process

Russ Gartner is my hero. (“County warns Studs Lumber to come into compliance,” Herald, April 13.) I am a fellow business owner in the area and went through the “convoluted process” multiple times in the past few years resulting in zero success.

Gartner has attempted what anyone negotiating a La Plata County Land Use Permit has considered (and accomplished all too many times) a viable option to circumvent the impossible process. I will be the first to admit this level of frustration is unhealthy for the community at large, but from experience in multiple communities, including Durango, it’s understandable.

Perhaps his actions may lead the planning staff and elected officials who oversee and direct the staff to take an introspective approach to the obvious tension created when a competent and capable member of the enterprising class approaches the planning department for permitting.

Greg Fulks

Durango



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