Pierce County Elections will perform the County’s official logic and accuracy testing on ballot counting and processing equipment at 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 27 at the Pierce County Elections Center, 2501 S 35th St, in Tacoma. The test is open to the media and the public. Before every election, Pierce County Elections tests the voting…
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Zoning, comprehensive plan updates
PIERCE COUNTY — Pierce County released the Draft Comprehensive Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for public review and comment by February 26. Members of the public are invited to provide input on how to plan for the next 20 years of growth in unincorporated Pierce County. The Comprehensive Plan provides a framework that guides…
Editorial: Listening to Constituents
By Claudia Riiff Finseth Apparently, I am not done with the subject of public comments at our Pierce County government’s public meetings. Blame it on Arlie DeJarnett, my high school civics teacher. Mr. DeJarnett was also a Representative to the Washington State Legislature. He knew his stuff. Day in and day out, the people we…
Comments on Tiny Village MDNS due Nov. 30
MDNS Comments Due by Nov. 30th!! The County has issued a Mitigated Determination of Non-significance, MDNS, for the Tiny Home Village in Spanaway. This means that, despite the public’s overwhelming concerns about the impact this giant project in this critical area will have on the environment, wetlands, water table, Spanaway Lake, traffic on Spanaway Loop…
The Role of Public Comment in County Hearings Is Deliberately Being Violated
OPINION: By Claudia Finseth At their public meeting on November 15th, the Parkland-Spanaway-Midland Land Use Advisory Commission voted unanimously to recommend to the Hearing Examiner to deny the placement of the county executive’s priority project tiny home village on the Spanaway Wetlands. They ultimately felt, as the greater community feels, that high density development on…
Fantasy Lights starts Nov. 17
[Editor note: Traffic on Military Road between Pacific Avenue and Spanaway Loop Road are often severely affected by Fantasy Lights traffic, adjust your travel from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. accordingly.] PIERCE COUNTY — Are you ready for the most magical time of the year? Join us at Fantasy Lights, the largest drive-through holiday light…
Spanaway came out in force to say, No!
Tonight was a who’s who of Parkland Spanaway and Midland. The land use hearing for a conditional use permit for the Pierce County Village, being pushed by the County Executive’s office and the Tacoma Rescue Mission, attracted a room full of people and a speaker sign up list longer than they had time at the…
The Parkland-Spanaway Flood Plain
By Claudia Riiff Finseth Every fall I get a big postcard from Pierce County reminding me I live in an area known to flood, the Spanaway-Parkland flood plain. And I know it’s true because twice in twenty-five years we have had hundred year floods here where I live along Spanaway Creek near 138th Street South…
The Parkland-Spanaway-Midland Communities Plan: A People’s Document
By Claudia Riiff Finseth A remarkable thing happened in the early 2000s under the Growth Management Act. A grassroots board of residents, community association members, school board members, the environmental community, the business community and the fire district created the Parkland-Spanaway-Midland Communities Plan. The process was guided by Project Lead Sean Gaffney, of Pierce County…
House demolition, but no silt fence
By Marianne Lincoln Spanaway is watching. There is already a high level of concern about how the Tiny Home Village project was dropped on our community. There are lawyers being paid to defend the interests of people living on the lake self-taxing to improve water quality. Then this project comes along and threatens to make…
Call for local artists
CALLING PIERCE COUNTY ARTISTS! The Pierce County Arts Commission is looking for digital artwork for Sprinker Recreation Center’s future fitness court! This opportunity is open to any artists 14 years or older living, working, or studying in Pierce County. A priority will be made to artists from the Parkland or Spanaway communities. This call includes…
PSM-LUAC Nov. 15, 6:30pm, Sprinker !!
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. at Sprinker Recreation Center. (Remember, you will hike a distance to get in from parking due to construction right now.) The Land Use Advisory Commission will be reviewing the homeless village project now labeled…
Pierce Prairie Post 