Tennessee cuts jobs in the State Local Planning Assistance Office

Governor Haslam’s administration has implemented staff cuts in the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. The Local Planning Assistance Office will experience the brunt of these cuts. The LPAO was responsible for providing planning staff for small counties, cities, and towns that lack the resources to maintain their own planning staff. To cope with this change, perhaps many of these small planning bodies will decide to consolidate and share resources. The potential upside for development is that the jurisdictional boundaries between some planning bodies may be abolished, making the the planning process in such areas more uniform and streamlined.

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