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…
Category: Homelessness
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…
Executive Priority inappropriate on Tiny Home Village Project
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…
2018, Pam Roach predicted Tiny Home problems
This is a story I found from the News Tribune in 2018 about the County Council voting to allow tiny home villages. It has some parallels to todays predicament with the Spanaway location. Perhaps, since this was all under the same County Executive, the plan was always to put the alcohol, drug and mental issues…
More Tiny Home county changes Sept. 25, Oct. 3
It appears the Pierce County Council is just finessing the effective dates on this proposal. In all honesty, they are awaiting the decision of the Growth Management Hearings Board. That hearing is December 6, 2023. Watch for changes after that decision announcement. Here are the hearing dates for this latest change. The Pierce County Council…
March 21 Council hearing on micro home village
[March 21, 3pm in the Council Chambers or by Zoom. The Zoom link is on the Council Agenda at the top, you will find that at this link. Or, write or call in advance,] Do you feel you are overtaxed?Well, it’s About to Get Worse! By Kim Underwood On MARCH 21, 2023 at the 3pm….
Before the March 21 meeting to approve a large homeless micro-village in the wetlands near Spanaway Lake…
By Marianne Lincoln Act before, not just at, the meeting, Write to your councilmember; write to all of them. If you think it is a bad idea to tear down trees shading a large Federal wetland that feeds into Spanaway Lake, Coffee Creek, Spanaway Creek, Morey Creek, Clover Creek, Chambers Creek, Chambers Bay and then…
Family Promise of Pierce County aims to assist local families experiencing homelessness
By Marianne Lincoln It can happen to anyone. Living paycheck to paycheck as many families do these days, losing the biggest expense, the roof over your heads, is not unlikely. It even happened to me after a job loss and sequestered unemployment benefits, following my time on the school board. According to Superintendent Seigel of…