Letter to the editor: Kent’s Planning Commission is not listening to the community

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I cycled through a range of emotions while attending last Tuesday’s special meeting of Kent’s Planning Commission. This meeting was a second opportunity for the Planning Commission to hear (only some) residents’ concerns about building an assisted living facility that was green-lit for an 8.5-acre site off South Water Street. I live about a block away from the proposed area. (First: a disclosure that, because the minutes from the first meeting are not yet posted, my reaction is based on my attendance at the second meeting and The Portager’s reporting to date.)