THis is so much gaslighting. Instead of looking for '''mitigation"" land, of which there is none left in Thurston county, why not STOP development altogether? How about using the funds for infrastructure repair?
Tumwater is looking for a place for yet another warehouse, yet another roundabout, another strip mall that will never be leased? Use the blighted lands you already have, Tumwater. In the past, economic development has shamelessly stolen good land and developed it. The mitigation land' they claim is so blasted, so abused that it won't grow anything but scotch broom and homeless camps. For instance, that bit of land on 93rd ave, for instance, just west of the I-5 cloverleaf..it's supposedly set aside as mitigation land (despite it being devoid of anything other than scotchbroom that it will never support anything more complex than a bug.) I bet my boots every project manager is using the SAME PIECE of land to excuse their destruction of prime forest/farm/agricultural land. That land will never support life any higher than an insect.
STOP with the incessent, relentless 'development'. Tumwater has already turned into a South Fife..we do not need another roundabout. We don't want more annexation so that Tumwater can squeeze in a warehouse. Just STOP.
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