In a brief letter addressed to Zeke Gaudern, the commission’s chairman, Mackey alluded to recent injustices she has witnessed in town politics and said she no longer wants to be a party to them.

Her resignation will be the second since the April 1 election in which commissioner Troy Hansen won a seat on the Town Board of Trustees. Hansen had to resign his post on the commission to serve on the board of trustees.

According to the town charter, the planning commission comprises the mayor, one member of the board of trustees and three residents.

Mackey said she stepped down because Planning Commissioner Pat Curtis was abusing her power and focusing the attention of the De Beque town marshal on possible code violations by one of her neighbors.

“In light of recent events occurring in town, and the harassment of selected individuals, I no longer wish to have any connection with the town of De Beque,” Mackey wrote in her resignation letter, dated May 5. “What is taking place here in town is an abomination.”

Mackey said she was referring specifically to the treatment of a young couple in town who is being hounded by Curtis.

“Pat Curtis runs the planning board and everything else in town. She has said flat out she will run this young couple straight out of town,” Mackey said.

Curtis said she is just doing what everyone in town should do: If they see a code violation, report it and get it cleaned up.

“It has nothing personal to do with anybody. It has to do with your block, taking care of it. If someone is (doing something) wrong, tell somebody,” Curtis said.

“Why do you have codes? Why bother if you are not going to enforce them?”