To Avoid a Lawsuit, Twice-Rejected Hemet Warehouse Project Gets Third Hearing
The Press-Enterprise reports Hemet’s city council will grant a third public hearing for a controversial warehouse project that councilmembers rejected twice before.
What’s going on in Hemet “illustrates the tension in local democratic governance where we elect people because of their convictions and ideas and then we ask them to act like impartial judges,” said Davina Hurt, Ethics Center director, government ethics.
“The fact that they’re going to a third hearing, the fact that there are recusals — This is for the benefit of the public and it is probably a good thing, although I’m sure if it doesn’t turn out the way the applicants want there may be a continued conversation.”
Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, quoted by The Press-Enterprise.