Voice of Sanity in Sequim
Eric Erichsen — Sequim’s newest city council member — has only been on the job a few weeks and he's already upsetting the Good Old Boy network. Three other new city council members — Ken Hays, Laura Dubois and Susan Lorenzen — will be sworn in on January 14th. Erichsen was sworn in on November 28th since he was replacing a city council member who had been appointed.
Sequim’s voters have spoken, and the three remaining developers’ puppets only have a few weeks left to ram through their puppetmasters’ agendas. So far they’ve gone into a frenzy of rezonings so they can cram as many new buildings into as tiny a space as possible.
Erichsen said that such density is “not what the people voted for just a few weeks ago. The people don't want this.” He was outvoted.
When criticized about Sequim’s runaway growth, Mayor Walt Schubert gave a pious response that “we cannot turn down a development that meets all of the criteria and the zoning.”
But that response doesn’t answer the nagging question of why they keep RE-zoning property every time a developer requests it.
Sequim’s voters have spoken, and the three remaining developers’ puppets only have a few weeks left to ram through their puppetmasters’ agendas. So far they’ve gone into a frenzy of rezonings so they can cram as many new buildings into as tiny a space as possible.
Erichsen said that such density is “not what the people voted for just a few weeks ago. The people don't want this.” He was outvoted.
When criticized about Sequim’s runaway growth, Mayor Walt Schubert gave a pious response that “we cannot turn down a development that meets all of the criteria and the zoning.”
But that response doesn’t answer the nagging question of why they keep RE-zoning property every time a developer requests it.
Labels: Eric Erichsen, Ken Hays, Laura Dubois, Mayor Walt Schubert, Sequim city council, Susan Lorenzen
posted by Tom Harper at 4:45 PM
3 Comments:
Let Sequim keep building. All the newcomers to the peninsula can be herded into those faceless housing tracts.
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
I'll call your 'against it' and raise you 2 contract kick-backs and 3 waived parking tickets.
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