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New tool for assessing access to shoreline
Submitted by Rick on Mon, 09/12/2005 - 2:41pm.
mapThe Trust for Public Land has put out a new tool for examining Puget Sound shoreline usage. This interactive map will allow you to look at any part of the Sound from Olympia to Canada. You can look at shoreline access, as well as population density and a number of other features. Very cool.

You can read about it here.

The striking thing about the data is that, with the exception of the Nisqually Delta, there is little public access to Puget Sound in our area (shown here in green).

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Candidates for city council
Submitted by Rick on Mon, 09/12/2005 - 8:09am.

The Olympian has two articles containing questions from the public for city council candidates. The first has questions from the Olympian's reader forum; the second has questions from a public meeting held on Sunday (9/11).

In reading the first batch or responses, I have the impression that people, including the candidates, have a distorted perception of downtown:

Jim Bremner: “What are you going to do about the panhandlers, the squalor and the general deterioration in downtown Olympia?
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More state buildings tax exempt
Submitted by Rick on Mon, 09/12/2005 - 7:59am.

For those of you that were interested in the topic of state gov't and tax revenue (about which we asked the Mayor), here's a piece in the Olympian about it.

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