The Waynesville Town Council will remove two members from the town’s Zoning Board of Adjustment after an investigation by The Smoky Mountain News last month revealed they’d each been appointed to a fourth term in violation of the town’s own term limits policy.
According to the consent agenda published in advance of the town’s Aug. 12 meeting, the most recent appointments of Henry Kidder and Joshua Morgan will be rescinded and two new applicants, Mary Ford and Jessi Stone, will be appointed in their place. Ford is a retired Air Force officer and longtime leader of the town’s civilian police academy, while Stone currently serves as the regional director of WNC health and economic opportunity at Pisgah Legal Services. Stone is also the former news editor of SMN.
Kidder was first appointed to the ZBA, a quasi-judicial board that hears appeals and variance requests related to land development standards, in 2015. He was reappointed to a fourth term on June 11, 2024, despite the town’s boards and commissions manual explicitly setting a three-term limit…