Paw Paw Council votes down forming new town Planning Commission

by Kate Shunney

In a 2-3 vote, members of the Paw Paw Town Council last Monday defeated an ordinance that would have formed a new Planning Commission for the town.

On December 1, the council held a second reading of a proposed ordinance that would have created a three to five-member Planning Commission for the Town of Paw Paw.

Under West Virginia law, a town seeking to do land use planning or to implement subdivision…