June 16, 2016 Wendy Harris ACTION
I could not help the bad pun so please forgive me. But everyone should know that the county council is holding a special committee meeting of the whole next Tuesday, the 21st [of June 2016], only one week after their last meeting, for the purpose of going over more of the comp. plan chapters and apppendix. Continue reading
Excerpt from Whatcom County, WWC 16.16 Critical Areas Regulations, Draft Adopted by Whatcom County Planning Commission 06-09-2016. Click on graphic to access document.
What’s Riddled With More Holes Than Cheese?
All the exemptions, exceptions, conditional and allowed activities inside critical area habitat conservation areas (The CAO [Critical Areas Ordinance]).
You may not realize all the activities that are allowed when we are protecting biodiversity because they are found in two locations, the specific Article provisions for that type of critical area, and in Article 2, which applies generally to all critical areas. Continue reading
This same point was really driven home to me by Lummi Nation a couple of years ago when DOE issued its proposal for clean up of the Whatcom Waterway. In discussing the cost/benefit analysis, it started since the time of colonization. The Lummis were upset that to white people (us), history began only at the moment they arrived. Continue reading
June 10, 2016 Press Release, Familias Unidas por la Justicia
Increase Gained Not Enough
Familias Unidas por la Justicia Members Will Continue the Fight for Fair Wages and Union Contract Continue reading
Habitat Conservation Areas (HCA), (also referred as Fish and Wildlife Habitat Conservation Areas FWHCA), are one of the 5 types of critical areas that are protected under the Critical Area Ordinance mandated by the Growth Management Act. Continue reading
Lummi Nation wants to improve transportation just south of Ferndale, but the City of Ferndale is having no part of it. Continue reading
Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 5:03 pm Guest writer, Tim Paxton
Tim Paxton guest writes. Tim’s testimony and evidence caused the Hearing Examiner to deny permits for Options HS last week. Tim knows of what he writes.
We are all in favor of educating all of Bellingham’s children but we demand our schools are safe. Continue reading
Lummi tribal members reef net fishing. One of two photos included with Lummi Press Release.
June 6, 2016 Lummi Nation PRESS RELEASE
Lummi Nation praises Wash. Department of Natural Resources’ decision to uphold treaty rights and deny lease Continue reading
June 5, 2016 Sandy Robson
The Bellingham Herald reported [in “Anti-coal activists, coal port supporters clash in Tri-Cities” on June 3]: “Millennium organized employees and other supporters to tout the economic benefits of the $680 million privately-funded project.” Continue reading
Agenda for June 2 Greenways Advisory Committee
Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 3:00 pm John Servais
This evening, Tuesday, June 2, at 7 pm, the Greenways Advisory Committee will meet at the Bellingham Municipal Court Building. On the agenda is basically one item – an executive session and followup public vote on a land acquistion issue. Continue reading
noisy waters northwest 
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