Fenner calls returning the proposed zoning language to the planning commission a “straw man format.”
Wikipedia defines straw man as follows:
A straw man or straw person, also known in the UK as an Aunt Sally, is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position. To “attack a straw man” is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the “straw man”), and to refute it, without ever having actually refuted the original position. This technique has been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly in arguments about highly charged, emotional issues.
One could make a reasonable inference from her use of “straw man,” and her later comment regarding changes to the MOU as mainly “format” changes, that this next phase of oil & gas zoning reg formulation contemplates no substantial change in position from the current position already shown to be in operational conflict with COGCC regulations. This may explain why Rick Brown and Paul Crisan expressed gratitude to the BOCC in the public comment segment at the end of the meeting.