The Bismarck City Commission passed a resolution of support for the Burleigh County Comprehensive Land Use Plan at it's Tuesday night meeting.

Commissioner Steve Schwab expressed his lone disapproval of the resolution and the comprehensive plan it endorses. He said he would prefer the old plan with a few modifications.

"It isn't a land plan anymore," Schwan said. "It's a restructuring of government - I can't encourage adoption of a plan I think is against the public interest."

Mayor John Warford countered and said the commission has a responsibility to manage growth. He said the comprehensive land use plan is a county extension of a previously passed city commission growth management plan.

"It provides order so that in the future, our children's children's children will have a system of roads and sewers that make sense," Warford said.

The two expressed and counter expressed their conflicting preceptions of the plan with no compromise.

There was also some concern as to the wording of the last clause in the resolution.

It originally encouraged the county commission to adopt "whatever modifications it finds to be in the public's best interest."

Commissioner Connie Sprynczynatyk said she felt the wording was too vague and flexible.

"We don't want to give the impression that the resoution and plan be so flexible that it fails to become comprehensive," she said.

William Wocken, city administrator, said the wording was intended to allow for the county commission's amendments so that the city commission wasn't endorsing a potentially obsolete plan.

The commission amended the resolution without the word "whatever" and added "consistent to good land use practices" to the end of the last clause.

(Reach reporter Chris Rosacker at 250-8254 or chris.rosacker@;bismarcktribune.com.)