This is one of the issues that came up during a board meeting of the new state agency tasked with developing public lands.The Public Land Development Corporation, created last legislative session, has been criticized for its broad powers in developing state lands. One of its constraints, as laid out in Act 55, is that it must proceed in “culturally-sensitive” ways.
This chapter establishes a public corporation to administer an appropriate and culturally-sensitive public land development program.
But what this means is subject to debate. And at a meeting on Wednesday of the corporation’s board, there appeared to be no clear answers.
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