Port Angeles Workshop on Energizing Downtown Areas
On June 6th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Vern Burton Center, there will be workshop titled “Highway 101 Revisited: Investing in Downtowns for Increased Health and Prosperity on the Olympic Peninsula.” This workshop is being sponsored by Forterra, based in Seattle, which describes itself as “Washington’s largest community-building and conservation organization.”
The organization's goal is “to bring a diverse group of stakeholders together from around the Peninsula to explore how to energize downtown areas, focusing on economic development, historic preservation and urban design.”
The workshop is open to the public. The same group will be holding another workshop in Aberdeen on June 14th.
The organization's goal is “to bring a diverse group of stakeholders together from around the Peninsula to explore how to energize downtown areas, focusing on economic development, historic preservation and urban design.”
The workshop is open to the public. The same group will be holding another workshop in Aberdeen on June 14th.
posted by Tom Harper at 4:58 PM
21 Comments:
Interesting. Forterra is the new name for what used to be called the Cascade Land Conservancy. Did the PDN article spell-out that this workshop is being sponsored by a quasi-environmental group?
Geez! What took them so long?! Here Port Angeles has been sitting around for so many years, slowing sinking into the mud, when all along, all we needed was a company from Seattle to come and tell us how to prosper!
I think they need a workshop in brevity...
Febreeze was going to shoot a commercial downtown last August, but it was too cold and windy.
In fact, the Gateway inspired their new ad campaign.
668 entrants in this weekends Halibut Derby. Not one restaurant was open to get a meal at 3:30 am. Most boats go out between 4 and 5 am. You would think Mce-D's would have been open. This town needs to cater to the 100's of fisher man and women who come to our town to fish.
Hum, another Seattle company will make some good money off of this, then go home and not give a shit how things work out here.
Carry on.
"Did the PDN article spell-out that this workshop is being sponsored by a quasi-environmental group?"
Wow! God forbid a group be concerned about the environment, even in a "quasi" way!!
Clearly Port Angeles has been doing such a great job of managing its' "environment", as we saw when NOAA decided not to re-locate to Port Angeles specifically citing a lack of "quality of life".
We should demand ANYONE who mentions the word "environment" be forced to leave the area, immediately. Maybe we can put a big "E" tattoo in red on their foreheads, so they can be identified where ever they go.
Uh...What exactly is a "quasi-environmental group"? Are they tree-huggers, but only for certain types of trees? They're for clean air, but against clean water?
Any clarification you could give on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your attention to detail.
Some people think of groups like Forterra as catering to mostly wealthy "Limousine Liberals" --- people and firms who like to cloak themselves as caring about the environment, but who are mostly interested in buying political influence and a more favorable regulatory climate (as in espousing the merits of "voluntary" environmental controls instead of anti-pollution rules with teeth.) It's similar to big corporate agricultural interests or big timber companies masquerading as if they are looking out for the public good - but really enhancing the corporate bottom line is their number one priority. If they can get their hands on public money to foster their pet projects --- like subsidies for "renewable energy" perhaps --- then they can consider their quasi-environmental posturing as a big success.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see what Forterra has in mind for its Olympic Peninsula Agenda.
The red (E) on the forehead is a great idea. Thank you.
"Maybe we can put a big "E" tattoo in red on their foreheads, so they can be identified where ever they go."
It is OK to tattoo a large "E" on their foreheads, but you may not brand an "E" on their foreheads as Max has banned that barbaric practice.
Thanking you!
You can take a look at their Olympic Agenda (what a horrible choice of word) here: http://www.forterra.org/files/1.2_Olympic_Agenda_First_Look.pdf
I'm as tree-hugging as the next hippie around here but most of it reads like complete business-speak bullshit. It all sounds great but how is any of it going to work here in the real world where money doesn't grow on trees.
Wow, must have been a long wait this weekend for computer time at the library! Everyone has been busy!
Read the article about Victoria delegation of business types coming to visit Port Angeles on Weds. And, the city is going to give these folks a tour of various enterprises to impress them, including the new Country Aire store, and Westport shipyards.
The article says Victoria's population is 80,000, compared to Port Angeles' 19,000. A look on the 'net says the greater Victoria area has a population of over 300,000. The entire population of Clallam County is 70,000!
Up Douglas street in Victoria, they are finishing the construction of a shopping complex (Up Town) with over 1 million square feet of retail floor space. Underground, on-site parking. I'm sure the delegation will be impressed with booming Port Angeles', and Country Aire.
And Westport ship yards? Do our city leaders follow the regional news, at all? The Esquimalt shipyards have one of the largest graving docks in North America, where they have re-fit those huge cruise ships. The federal government just awarded them billions in contracts to build some number of warships.
As the guy from Victoria was quoted so clearly, their visit is about promoting tourism TO Victoria.
I guess I was taking a nap when Forterra got Seattle running like a fine watch and started expanding out to show the rest of us how to do things.
Damn, sorry I missed that, damn naps.
BBC - Me too! Now it makes sense! McGinn IS a bike riding fascist!
I'm so afraid!
Other evidence of "limosine liberals" meddlin' in things:
The trees they now leave along creeks and ridges "prone to erosion" (yea, right) - black helicopters hide there mostly protecting the extensive tunnel system the feds are building here.
Recycling - just so they can monitor what you buy and read - hence the bar codes - heads up excessive beer drinkers and margarine users and subsribers of the Leader.
Clean Air Act - Total Scam so they can pollute more. This was the first step towards CapN'Trade - thank God Sarah saw the light on that just in time.
Sunscreen - Makes you burn MORE - then you buy and use more. The toxic melage causes cancer even if you stay indoors! A win/win for oncologists!
Bug Repellant - Actually attracts bugs - makes you use more.
UV Protective eyewear - while affording some protection, the masses thinking it's ok to stare at or near the sun, you guessed it - we are frying our eyeballs and adding great sums to the bank accounts of eye doctors. Tough one.
Unleaded gas/batteries in cars - less efficient, not worth the trade off, makes us burn more gas. Plus, your engine wears out faster, takes you longer to get places, which takes carbon to make a new Prius every three years. Duh.
Burning wood - cools the earth, makes it rain more too! Called "Global Dimming", lessens the effects of climate change and so called "global warming".
@ Anon 11:25
I'm going to guess your post was meant as a joke. No thinking person would actually believe any of those things to be true!
"so called "global warming"???
Consider these clips, only a small fraction of what is factually recorded:
January 2012 Breaks Heat, Cold, Snow and Tornado Records
www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/january-2012...heat.../6082...
US heat 'unprecedented,' 7000 records set or tied | Reuters
Mar 23, 2012 – WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - An "unprecedented" March heatwave in much of the continental United States has set or tied more than...
'Astonishing' heat in March set records for the month – USATODAY ...
www.usatoday.com/weather/news/extremes/.../2012...heat-weather/.../...
Apr 1, 2012 – Meteorologists used the terms "staggering," "astonishing" and "incredible" to describe the heat
March 2012 becomes Warmest March on Record
www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/?n=climo_2012march_warmest
Apr 11, 2012 – March 2012 was the hottest March on record..
Record heat in Ohio, rest of U.S. over Memorial Day weekend ...www.cleveland.com › Plain Dealer Metro › Real-Time News
1 day ago – Not only was a new high-temperature record set at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Monday -- the 10th new record of 2012
Last 12 Months Hottest in Recorded US History | Mother Jones
www.motherjones.com/.../2012/.../heat-records-shattered-us-past-12-...
"Called "Global Dimming", lessens the effects of climate change and so called "global warming". Easy to see THAT really is at play!
Seems the only "global dimming" that can be clearly observed is that of the intelligence of the poor sods that believe without question what the petroleum industry has been paying many millions to get people to believe.
Whether these poor dimmed souls ever come around to see what is actually happening doesn't matter. The impacts of climate change have been upon us for a number of decades, and are only getting more severe as each day passes.
Regardless of your political views, the physical reality is what it is.
I'm okay with us growing bananas and lemons here. I just don't want more of these monkeys moving here, they're the ones that screwed things up where they are.
But our stupid leaders want them coming here, why? Cuz our leaders are stupid. And most likely christians that think some make believe god will make things right.
Dog listens to their prayers and ponders on them while licking his dick.
"The world’s air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant. Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere. The number isn’t quite a surprise, because it’s been rising at an accelerating pace. Years ago, it passed the 350 ppm mark that many scientists say is the highest safe level for carbon dioxide. It now stands globally at 395." [Washington Post]
OOOOOH ---- The workshop is tomorrow! The workshop is tomorrow!
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