HAHAHAHA!!!  Doomed I say, doomed!  Those of us on the water shall rise up and destroy you all!  Soon we will not have our views of the shore ruined by housing developments, bridges and other useless impediments! HAHAHA!!!  Fear the ocean I say, FEAR THE OCEAN!

Sorry, I was feeling goofy.

Lousy place for a city hall.  Personally I think they should meet in tents.  Without heaters.  In the winter.  See what kind of damage they could do then.  *insert evil laugh again* 

Those crazy radical trouble makers at the World Bank have noted it here.

The bottom line on all development is that development should be cautious and take into account "crazy storms."

I remember looking at all the high water in the 1996 Chehalis flood and then watching as all the building - walmart, home depot, walgreens, etc - put infrastructure in the very area that could easily be predicted for flooding and shaking my head.  And it's not just as dumb as putting infrastructure in harm's way, it also entails destruction of ecologically significant wetlands that mitigate flooding in other areas.  

So, when you look at the puddles and duckies, it's just good sense to take rising sea level into account, maybe a resulting rising water table, and the increasing incidence of crazy storms. 

I think good civic planning should take these things into account. 

and then everyone around that area, at a lower elevation will flood.

The good old American system of screw your partner

but the last time I knew, "compromise and quick decision making" was called "flip-flopping", at least in the 2004 General Election.

You do harm to the future... is based on opinion, not fact.  You're free to project the future but the pay isn't all that great.  What if we could actually make it better by spending the time and effort thinking through a long-term solution?  I'm a realist with a hint of optimism, oh well.

Can we engineer a solution?  We had better figure it out one way or another.  I don't think the answer is to abandon land because of its potential in the future.  Not unless we are 100% certain that devastation in inevitable.  I'm not blind here.  I understand what's at stake.

You make it sound like capitulating is a bad thing here.  He made clear his position but in the interest of progress he changed his mind.  It's not like we're talking about a vote on the 2nd amendment.  It's CITY HALL!  Me thinks your personal dislike for Doug Mah is clouding your ability to recognize the positive in it all.  I commend Doug for not playing politics and moving forward.

One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.

Thomas Sowell

and of course....

Seriously, they need to plan for rising water.  I like the Safeway site, or better still tear down the old and build a new one there on high ground.