A tangential issue I have with Planning Commission members is whether they make actual on-site visits to the locations about which they are making decisions. In the cases I've had before the Commission, it was apparent that members had not made on-site visits to personally take in the issues being decided, but have obtained all their information from reading written materials supplied to them by the Planning Department and citizen comments. Especially where topography enters into the decision to zone a property one way or the other, even topographic maps don't take the place of actually walking the site in question and personally taking in the issues being discussed and decided.