This is merely the first step in the Planning Council's plan to 'rezone' everything from residential/rural to 'mixed use. Which means MORE warehouses, etc. As always, they use the bait and switch...'''jobs'' this will add 'jobs'. Like what kind of jobs? Certainly not white collar ones that pay a liveable wage. No, we're talking people loading pallets with stuff we don't need. If I want to work in a warehouse, I can find one, easily, without having to see yet another farm get destroyed.
"""Evans emphasized that communities need adequate industrial lands just like other essential services. "But we need to find the best spot for them so that we can minimize the environmental and community impact. But recognizing that not having them is not a good option, just like a house without a laundry room.""""
The rezoning request for the Maytown exit convenienty ignored that there's a water shed there, and a stream called Beaver Creek. It waters everything south to the Black River. It is NOT suitable for building on. Leave it alone.
That spot, Ms. Evans, is NOT in THurston County.
No, we DON'T need ''adequate industrial lands". We've gotten along just fine without warehouses everywhere. We've watched as Pierce and King counties have destroyed their open lands. Puyallup had the best topsoil in W. Washington and grew famous for it's crops....and now it's all white warehouses and paved parking lots.
Developers are relentless, greedy and heartless. Once they destroy the land, cut down the trees, add more pollution to the water, the air and oh by the way, where are all those people whose homes they flattened going to live? But they got their money and are moving elsewhere to make yet another million or more dollars.
THere are several warehouses already that are unused or underutilized. We don't need more.
Adequate is subjective. 'recognizing that '''not having industry is not a good option"...where in the world are they GETTING this stuff? the '''laundry room"? this is nonsense. It's gobbledygook, it's Sugar Ray Leonard taunting Thomas Hearns with his right fist while his killer left hook knocked Hearns down.
Leave what ever is left of rural open lands in Thurston county ALONE. STOP this stupid development. STOP.
I voted for Evans. I won't make that mistake again.
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