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Letter to the Whatcom County Council:
Now that the Council has handed off the Chapter 2 ball to the Planning Commission, you will have more time to look around and see what else is going on in our state. Continue reading
23 mins July 25, 2016 Sandy Robson
January 26, 2016. Remember that date because that is the day that the general public, the Lummi Nation, the Suquamish Indian Tribe, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and Tulalip Tribes (which submitted Comp Plan Update comments on Cherry Point UGA), and our County Council, were stopped from fully participating, or even participating at any acceptable level, in the County Comp Plan Update process as it relates to Cherry Point UGA. Continue reading
July 22, 2016 Dena Jensen
Dear Whatcom County Council:
I have been involved for 5 years in working in opposition to projects at Cherry Point that do or will adversely affect the air, lands, waters, life forms, and/or cultural and spiritual resources located there or the treaty rights of affected tribes, which in turn have or will have an adverse effect on the rest of our region. The only question has ever been, whether those adverse effects can be lightened to some degree acceptable to either the Lummi and Nooksack Nations or the majority of people in our community. Continue reading
July 19, 2016 Carl Weimer
As you probably know for the last six months the County Council has spent the majority of our time reviewing and amending the County’s Comprehensive Plan. Before that the Planning Commission spent a few months doing the same. Continue reading
Bob Watters’ testimony at the July 12, 2016 County Council Special Committee of the Whole meeting
SSA Marine’s Sr. VP Bob Watters, was allowed to give public testimony at the July 12, 2016 County Council Special Committee of the Whole (SCOTW) meeting during the public comment session. Continue reading
Memorandum from Mark Personius, Assistant Director County Planning & Development Services with suggested policy language “in-lieu of the proposed Cherry Point UGA narrative and policies included in the July 5th Council agenda packet.”
At the July 12 evening Whatcom County Council Meeting, which I attended, Council Chair Barry Buchanan made an announcement at the beginning of the meeting. Continue reading
Fri, Jul 15, 2016, 7:31 am Dick Conoboy
Police shooting citizens. Citizens shooting police. Racial profiling.
Today, I submitted the comment (copied and pasted below) to the Whatcom County Council. My comment related to Council member Carl Weimer’s proposed amendments to Chapter 2 Land Use Cherry Point, in the Comprehensive Plan Update, and the July 8, 2016 Northwest Jobs Alliance email blast promotional piece about Mr. Weimer’s amendments. Continue reading
In most industries, when you break the laws and violate regulations, you get fined, you can loose your license or even go to jail. Not so for local farmers who actually get rewarded when found to be out of compliance with public health and safety laws. Continue reading
Yes. Police caused deaths are a tough conversation to have in Whatcom County – for it is happening here. Is it justified or not? I do not know. How do we look at it from a healthy community standpoint? Continue reading
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