ABSTRACT
The planning commission in any community has a responsibility to inform and educate the public about the purposes of planning. The commission should also report on how the specific problems about which people are concerned are being resolved. In many cities, especially the smaller ones, planning and development proposals stir up more public clamor than any other governmental activity. A good commission should have several members who circulate among the people in the community, getting the public pulse and the kind of public opinion that can't be gauged in the tumult of public hearings. The most important aspect of a planning commission's public relations is its public meetings. If the commission understands the pressures forbad development, they may devise restrictive ordinances which can generally prevent things from happening but have no motive power whatsoever to make what is desired and in the public interest happen.
