For the second time in a month, New Castle County Executive Paul Clark has replaced a longtime member of the Planning Board who has a history of objecting to Paul Clark’s development projects.
This time it was Victor Singer, the board chairman for the last 13 years. Last time it was 16 year veteran Mark Weinberg, who believes the fact that he opposed many developers represented by Paul Clark’s wife, Pam Scott, led to his outser.
Clark says he is not getting revenge, rather he is being civic minded because Planning Board members should have term limits.
“It is my belief that these appointments should not be life terms and that other qualified people should be given the opportunity to serve,” Clark said. “When you’ve been on these boards for several years, you wind up becoming the professional and not the citizen, and these are citizen boards.”
How nice of Mr. Clark. He is so civic minded. The problem is, with planning boards, you want long time community experience represented on the board rather than lap dogs for the developers who are ready to approve every project.