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No environmental review

Submitted by Rick on Sun, 03/05/2006 - 8:36am.

Even though the plan includes creating a paved area the size of a parking lot for a strip mall, the judge says: "no environmental review for you!" From the Olympian:

OLYMPIA — A Thurston County Superior Court judge Friday upheld a Port of Olympia commission decision that a thorough environmental review is not required to relocate a log export business from Tacoma to Olympia.
Community activists Jerry Parker and Jan Witt, who had appealed the port decision, argued through their attorney that spending $1.7 million on paving a portion of the port’s cargo yard for Weyerhaeuser was significant enough to warrant the need for an environmental impact study.
But Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor said as part of his ruling that the scale of the project “did not change the character or use of the (port) property

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I sure hope that an appeal is

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sun, 03/05/2006 - 8:47am.

I sure hope that an appeal is a possibility.

Did the relevant port officials conspire to use public tax dollars to coax a deal out of weyerhauser?

That question needs to be addressed.

Have you seen the Port?? I'm

Submitted by white feather on Sun, 03/05/2006 - 12:00pm.

Have you seen the Port?? I'm inclined to agree with Judge Tabor.

Maybe an impact study on the abuse the City streets are going to take with more heavy traffic.

The concern here is what effe

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sun, 03/05/2006 - 12:58pm.

The concern here is what effect the pavement will have with the hydrodynamic processes that occur on the peninsula. Something apparently Judge Tabor doesn't think warrants a closer look. When the land is paved over, fresh water (in the form of rain) cannot percolate through the surface and into the ground. What happens then? The ground dries up, and may begin to wick salt water up into it. Consequences? There are bound to be some. But the point is that the design clearly warrants environmental review.

The impact of increased truck traffic also warrants a serious analysis by multiple jurisdictions.

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