By Marianne Lincoln

It is possible, with the online permit process, to place public comment directly to the permit application process. I have been asked to tell you, the public, this information so you can add your comments to the Tiny Home Village [Calle Community First Village] that is being proposed for the area between Spanaway Marsh and Spanaway Lake.

This is the link to the online permit public comment. You must first say yes you agree to abide by their rules, then you can see the bright orange box on the right-hand side that you click on to make a comment. You can also see other peoples public comments and read them from below.

Please – add your comments! Flood them with comments!

Below the SEPS, I have added instructions in case you get lost in the Online Permits. There are some sneaky tricks to it…

Here is the link:
https://pals.piercecountywa.gov/palsonline/#/permitSearch/permit/documents?applPermitId=1013476

Here is the SEPA that they submitted.

Please try to do so in August. I am not sure the deadline for this, I think it passed, but if I find it, I will add that information.

Online Permits: https://pals.piercecountywa.gov/palsonline/#/dashboard

You will need to create a login for yourself to comment. Once you do, you may have trouble finding your way back, this will help. Put the permit application number (or parcel number if there is only one). Tiny Homes is 1013476.

Once you are in the permit section for that development it looks like this. They tuck the good stuff under the documents heading.

Here, under Documents, you see people who have already added comments and other goodies like site plans also. Then, you can go to the magic orange box called Public Comments and add yours.

[Editor: I must add how I feel about the disingenuous name given to this project, “Community First Village.” There is nothing here that has ever put the community of Spanaway first. The executive’s office has seen to it the “community” has absolutely no sway to any decision being made on this project. Dammeier, O’Ban, and previously, Anderson have commanded and ushered this project right over the heads of all the community members that have attempted to participate. It is almost as if they hold more goals than we are aware, like the complete annihilation of any potential possibility that our previously promised Cross Base Highway would ever happen. That, too, was done without notification to the community that they continuously use as a dumping ground for the worst of what they don’t want in other communities. I do see the handiwork and fingerprints of others that I have seen historically work against the Cross Base Highway in this project. More on that in another article I am writing.]