Informed Decision Making Enablement City Planning Board Waterfront Development
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/94#Informed_Decision_Making_Enablement_City_Planning_Board_Waterfront_Development
Properties
Instance of
InformedDecision-MakingEnablementObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InformedDecision-MakingEnablementObligation
Applied to
City Planning Board regulatory decision on Developer F's waterfront development
Traffic, noise, and air pollution impact information
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Relevance and Pertinence Standard for Voluntary Disclosure at Public Hearings
Concrete expression
The City Planning Board's ability to make an informed regulatory decision about the waterfront development depended on receiving all relevant and pertinent information — including traffic, noise, and air pollution impacts — which was supplied in the present case by other hearing witnesses even if not by Engineer A.
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
The obligation to enable informed decision-making by the public regulatory authority was collectively satisfied by the public hearing process as a whole, with multiple witnesses contributing different pieces of relevant information, even though Engineer A individually did not volunteer the traffic and environmental impact data.
Invoked by
City Planning Board City Planning Board Regulatory Authority
Other Hearing Engineers Public Hearing Witness Engineer
Tension resolution
The Board implicitly resolved the tension by recognizing that the public hearing process — not any single engineer's presentation — is the mechanism for ensuring the decision-maker receives all relevant information; Engineer A's non-disclosure was ethically acceptable because other witnesses supplied the missing information.
Source Evidence
Source text
The question is whether the traffic, noise, and air pollution issues are 'relevant and pertinent information.' If they are 'relevant and pertinent,' the engineer has an obligation to disclose the information in any presentation made on the project.
Text references
Engineers play an important role when testifying before public bodies on technical and other matters affecting the public health, safety, and welfare.
If they are 'relevant and pertinent,' the engineer has an obligation to disclose the information in any presentation made on the project.
Other witnesses and participants in the public process may supply information the presenting engineer did not volunteer.
TTL
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"Other Hearing Engineers Public Hearing Witness Engineer" ;
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proeth:sourcetext "The question is whether the traffic, noise, and air pollution issues are 'relevant and pertinent information.' If they are 'relevant and pertinent,' the engineer has an obligation to disclose the information in any presentation made on the project." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The Board implicitly resolved the tension by recognizing that the public hearing process — not any single engineer's presentation — is the mechanism for ensuring the decision-maker receives all relevant information; Engineer A's non-disclosure was ethically acceptable because other witnesses supplied the missing information." ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineers play an important role when testifying before public bodies on technical and other matters affecting the public health, safety, and welfare.",
"If they are 'relevant and pertinent,' the engineer has an obligation to disclose the information in any presentation made on the project.",
"Other witnesses and participants in the public process may supply information the presenting engineer did not volunteer." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
94
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T19:01:33.144715+00:00
First case
94
Generated
2026-02-28T19:01:33.144715+00:00
Attributed to
Case 94 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T19:13:05.766600
Generated by
ProEthica Case 94 Extraction