Community residents cannot be neutral when it comes to public health and safety.  Community interests should be paramount. That is why the majority of Peninsula residents fully supported District 2 City Councilmember Kevin Faulconer and the efforts of his team of residents to stop the [methane gas] truck shipments through Point Loma’s residential areas and reaching a compromise on the overall Beneficial Use of Digester Gas Project. The Peninsula Community Planning Board (PCPB) and its chairperson have refused to endorse Councilman Faulconer’s efforts, led by contentious Chairman [Chuck] Mellor, who ignores the rules under which board members are sworn to operate. This individual seems to believe he alone can decide anything and everything. We feel he consistently operates outside the established rules. He misrepresented the board and the community when he appeared before the City Council on June 2 to promote the trucking of methane gas and stated at the last PCPB meeting on Dec. 17 that he would do it again.  We feel this is a pattern of manipulation and deceit and that he certainly does not represent the community. If this chairperson had a modicum of decency he would have admitted his “honest” mistake and thrown both his and the planning board’s support behind Councilman Faulconer and the community’s historical, environmental event. The only solution is for this chairperson to resign.