Ed Lauing and Doria Summa win fresh four-year terms on Planning and Transportation Commission
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On March 1, the Palo Alto City Council made appointments to two citizen panels. Embarcadero Media file photo by Veronica Weber.
Concluding an unusually fractious and political appointment process, the Palo Alto City Council moved on Monday to award fresh four-year terms to incumbent Planning and Transportation Commission members Ed Lauing and Doria Summa.
The Monday action followed a split on the council over whether the appointments should have been made at the end of 2020, consistent with past practice of end-of-year appointments, or in early 2021, which would align with a new policy that the council adopted in December. The technical debate had significant ramifications for the city s most influential commission, where the two members who are most closely associated with the council s residentialist camp were nea