Columbia opts out of regional planning commission

Remaining members left to plan without presence of Mid-Missouri's largest city.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT

COLUMBIA — Columbia will save about $30,000 in fiscal 2010 by dropping its membership in the Mid-Missouri Regional Planning Commission. The decision, however, deals a blow to the group because Columbia is the biggest city in the region and was the commission’s largest dues-paying member.

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