By Cindy Beckett

This will be heard at the Parkland -Spanaway-Midland Advisory Commission public meeting date is November 15, 2023, at 6:30 p.m., location not yet determined.  I would really like to know all these jobs he has created for these homeless!  Where might we find that list?

The executive is trying to still push through the (illegal) village at Spanaway Lake development. Below is the next attempt under a smokescreen title “executive priority”!  I’m sure he hopes no one knows what that means, but I do and so will many very soon. 

It certainly does not mean a homeless village that will not create jobs, only contamination of the lakeshore and the lake and loss of the water recharge to the lake.  All will be ruined or destroyed.
As to that, I remind all that Spanaway Lake is found on Federal sites and is to be treated that way – the Federal laws that protect the shoreline lands, especially those with wetlands that drain into the lake, are to be abided by and upheld even in Pierce, and are to be protected, not destroyed.  In the past I have sent the GIS FEMA) overlays of that area, clearly showing flood hazard and water on and under the surface.

There are also the wetlands and waterway that flow from offsite to the south that also flow into the lake.  That water is part of the supply to the lake, and under Federal therefore State law, may not be destroyed.  Even an “executive priority” cannot damage or destroy those wetlands without Federal permits.  As the legislative body for the county, this needs to be addressed for its legality, as there is no US Code or RCW that permits this destruction.

In fact, “executive priority” does not include this action as it does not create jobs.