Dentist Nominated to Serve as Planner

Thousand Oaks dentist Thomas Glancy was nominated Wednesday to serve on the city’s Planning Commission, one of the top appointed posts in city government.

Glancy, an 18-year city resident, was nominated by Councilman Dennis Gillette.

“I found him to be highly intelligent, very approachable, able to take on very complex issues, work through them and arrive at an appropriate decision and conclusion,” Gillette said. “He will bring a professionalism and freshness to the Planning Commission and an independence that I believe commissioners need.”

Glancy is also a retired Navy captain with 25 years of service and a long record of involvement in the community since opening his practice in 1980.

Glancy was on vacation this week, but those who know him said Gillette has chosen a top-notch candidate as his Planning Commission nominee.

“I’m thrilled that he has been nominated, and I think he’ll do an excellent job,” said accountant Judy St. John, who heads the Thousand Oaks Rotary Club, a position recently held by Glancy. “In the Rotary Club and in his general activities, he’s got a reputation of someone who does a very good job at whatever he does. He doesn’t wait for someone to tell him what to do, he goes out and gets the job done.”

Glancy has a list of community service work to his credit, including serving as chairman of the local YMCA corporate board of directors, chairing the Conejo Academy of Dentistry and serving as general chair of the Conejo Valley Days town fair organization.

Glancy is the second of three nominees the council will consider when it reconvenes Wednesday. Councilman Dan Del Campo last week tapped local scientist Michael Farris as his nominee, while Councilman Andy Fox has said he will name his nominee after the new year. Fox’s current appointee, Ron Polanski, has asked that Fox not renominate him.

Also, Mayor Linda Parks is expected to move to replace her current commissioner, Dave Anderson, with outgoing Commissioner Marilyn Carpenter. Parks needs a majority of the council to agree to remove Anderson, and council members have not publicly indicated how they will vote.

The five-member Planning Commission oversees approval of major building development projects in the city, as well as matters pertaining to zoning, special-use permits and land-use studies. Its commissioners generally serve on terms that run concurrently with the council members who appointed them.