Housing

In Growth Management Hearings Board (GMHB) Case No. 0002c, Ian Munce and Evergreen Islands v. City of Anacortes, the Board addressed my issue as to ongoing, pre-existing critical area destruction in my immediate neighborhood by pointing out that AMC 19.70.040 as newly adopted simply prohibits such ongoing destruction. Pages 7 and 8 are attached for review and consideration. Yet, these activities continue not just in my neighborhood and across the City. My next step was…

I guess we should have expected it, but it’s disappointing none the less. Since “affordable housing” is a critical issue for all our communities, it is now being used as a cudgel or enticement for what would otherwise be an unacceptable development options. For Skagit County, the implementation of GMA was particularly painful. We were delinquent in implementing the law and were at risk of sanctions from Olympia by the time we actually adopted our…

As house builder, past president of Skagit Habitat, and strong advocate for affordable housing (Bill) and John a past president of SHH, a City administrator for LaConner for 14 years, we comment below on the many failures of the Housing element of the CP. We sent the City Clerk for your review links to 2 GMB recent decisions, Mercer Island and Kitsap county. It is crystal clear that the the GMA requires much more detail…