Property owners wary of Warren County’s plans to zone land can bide their time, as supervisors put off adopting any part of an ongoing study on the topic until after elections are held later this year.

By delaying their review of the Central Mississippi Planning and Development District’s recommendations, supervisors keep the topic squarely on the table as a campaign issue in the August primaries and general voting in November.

&#8220Most people are behind it,” District 1 Supervisor David McDonald said when the board met Thursday, adding the likely time for agreeing to any maps CMPDD has presented will be well into 2008.

&#8220It’ll be either next spring or summer. I think that’s a fast track,” McDonald said.

Preliminary maps show much of the county’s current land usage staying intact and being labeled according to population density and degree of agricultural use.

Some portions, however, would label pockets of residential development as agricultural, as in the lower end of District 4 in the southwest.

Its supervisor, Carl Flanders, pressed for a decision from other supervisors.

&#8220We have time and money invested in this document. Do we have a timetable for Mr. (William) Peacock to come back?”

Peacock, a CMPDD consultant, has been most involved in showing the regional planning agency’s findings to supervisors since the board commissioned the firm to produce studies on land, road and facility use in August 2005.

Its reports consist of broad outlines of residential and commercial land use, county-owned buildings and traffic flow, without making specific recommendations.

According to state law, all land zoning in Mississippi must come as a result of comprehensive plans, such as the CMPDD study.

Supervisors, all of whom face ballot opposition this year, sought to put to rest misinformation in the community as to the scope of the zoning study, specifically about the Vicksburg municipal code enforcement arm taking over those duties in the county.

&#8220The city’s gone overboard with theirs (zoning and code enforcement). It’s ridiculous,” District 2 Supervisor William Banks said.

In other business, the board discussed the possibility of using the Vicksburg Warren School District’s Channel 17 as an outlet to air its meetings, held on the first and third Mondays each month.

The discussion came after reports RCTV23, the city-owned government access channel, was no longer showing the county meetings.

When reached, the county’s contract videographer, Cedric Tillman, said the tape of supervisors’ May 21 meeting was pulled by Mayor Laurence Leyens on the grounds it contained verbiage that could be construed as electioneering.

Leyens did not return calls Thursday.

Tillman, a former RCTV23 employee, operates Paradise Productions, which records supervisor meetings for a fee and turns his work over to the city government channel.

Tillman said he was advised by Leyens each taping of supervisors’ sessions would be analyzed on a &#8220meeting-to-meeting” basis.

Station manager Barry Graham said Thursday the county board meeting held June 4 will be shown sometime today, with the time to be determined.