Policy making in Tompkins County is a purely mechanical process: every outcome is decided before the issue is revealed.
The round of comments, and meetings and surveys is only a meaningless backfill for an edifice whose foundations have already been laid.
The “meeting” for a radical zoning change for the rural Lansing community is called an “Open House” – a PR phrase for an exclusionary paradigm shift that denied that same rural community any participation in its planning.
When you connect all the dots — it’s a picture of money.