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The Fresno Bee

The Fresno Bee

Developer’s Housing Plan in Clovis Gets Favorable Treatment, Special Zoning, City Emails Show 

John Pelissero, senior scholar, government ethics, quoted by the The Fresno Bee.

“City planners that are involved with this, and other public officials, really need to have enough ethical awareness about themselves to understand that the public may look at this and say, ‘This doesn’t seem right’” said John Pelissero, a senior scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. “If people perceive that something doesn’t look right here, it has the potential to erode trust in Clovis city government.”

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