It's always later. On this point, Hall agrees. They get this notice in the mail, and it's like, geez, the earliest date to approve the plan is 15 days from today. And by the time they get it, maybe five or six days have elapsed and they're thinking, wow, the CDF is just going to shove this through the system. Hall says that less than 1 percent of THPs qualify for the earliest possible approval date.
Citizens say just finding out about review meetings is an inappropriate hassle.
And in that short time you have to try to get as many bodies there as possible. The public doesn't have enough time to get people there. I think it's planned that way. The prime example of cumulative impacts is the Russian River. So they adopted something filled with all sorts of verbiage.