Article: PLATT TO BE REAPPOINTED AS COLONIE PLANNING BOARD CHAIRMAN.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: MARC CAREY Staff writer

COLONIE Longtime Planning Board Chairman Peter Platt, who has been a lightning rod of controversy for some neighborhood activists angry about the town's philosophy on development, will be reappointed to his post, possibly as early as tonight, according to town officials.

Those same officials, however, plan to look at enacting term limits for members of the various town boards, and will seek a kinder, ``gentler'' Planning Board this year, said Deputy Supervisor Mary Brizzell.

She said the reappointment is expected to take place at the Town Board's regularly scheduled meeting tonight.

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