From the Daily Camera:  The meetings between high-level Boulder planning department officials and an advisory group composed mostly of people involved in development, held privately for more than a decade, will now be made public, city officials announced Tuesday.

Members of the Planning and Development Services Advisory Group — architects, real estate agents, builders and developers, primarily — said last month that the meetings were never meant to be kept secret, and that they focus mainly on sharpening the process by which Boulder does or does not approve a particular project.

Many residents and multiple City Council members, however, questioned the off-the-record nature of the meetings, as well as the advisers’ presumed leaning in favor of development.

“This is the fox guarding the henhouse,” Councilwoman Lisa Morzel told the Daily Camera in late December. “I just find it kind of strange that this group that makes their money from development or redevelopment is helping our staff create these rules, and there is no input from the general public.”

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