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.