Board of Supervisors reviews latest version of Monterey County general plan

Will the board give the proposed template for rural growth over the next 20 years a cursory review, banking on the thoroughness of their appointed planning commissioners, who spent several months poring through the documents?

Or will the supervisors begin their own meticulous inspection of the update that revisits every contentious issue -- from protection for potentially endangered animals and plants to potentially erosion-causing development on slopes?

The answers will depend on whether the board wants to debate further a few issues dear to the small number of groups still engaged in the drawn-out process.