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The County and the applicant have significant resources at their disposal, which has made this battle particularly challenging. However, the dedication of the Spanaway Concerned Citizen's Community has been extraordinary, and your continued support has kept us in this fight.
We remain hopeful that this misuse of wetlands will be stopped by our lawsuit filed on September 16, 2024. Please join us in our efforts to protect this land, environment, and community.
We estimate the cost of this lawsuit to be at least $30,000.00!
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The gills of the dead fish are filled with silt. These fish were found where Coffee Creek enters Spanaway Lake. Coffee Creek runs through the proposed "Good Neighbor Village" site (where culverts were replaced WITHOUT PERMITS on two different streams) then runs under Spanaway Loop Rd and into Spanaway Lake.
Link to related videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSaXsEgTNarbztkw_SyTzN6AI_uOgzvAL
The Residential Resource Zone (RR Zone) designation protects our most environmentally sensitive areas and accordingly has the lowest density of all zones, allowing only 1-3 Dwelling Units per acre (see info below).
On March 21st, 2023, the Pierce County Council amended the code to allow “Shared Housing” in the RR Zones of Parkland/Spanaway/Midland ONLY. The RR Zone in other communities still prohibit "shared housing".
To “allow” the Pierce County Village for the chronically Homeless to be built in an environmentally sensitive and critical watershed area.
The Village was allowed to apply for a permit in the one month period when Ord. 2023-5s was in effect.
Spanaway Concerned Citizens filed a land use petition appeal (lawsuit) against Pierce County and Tacoma Rescue Mission. Our court date is March 28, 2025.
"Low-Barrier" housing complex for "Pierce County's chronically homeless" Over 300 buildings in a critical environmental area.
Please watch this video & share our website & FaceBook.
Zoom in to see the details. Does this look like "low-density" to you?
BY SHEA JOHNSON 8/23/23
BY SHEA JOHNSON 8/23/23
BY SHEA JOHNSON 8/23/23
BY BECCA MOST 8/23/23
On October 4, 2022, the Council updated the Residential Use Code which included allowing "Shared Housing" and language for counting "Sleeping Units" as .25 of a house. This was a significant Code change with anemic Public Notice. There are only 3 comments, none of which address "Shared Housing".
On December 6, 2022, after discovering the Village was not allowed on the chosen site because it was in the RR Zone, the council asked significant questions to be answered by the Executive.
The 218 page response can be found using the link below. BE SURE TO READ PAGES 5 & 6 WHERE THEY OUTLINE HOW THEY WILL PUSH THIS THROUGH REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT IT IS ALLOWED IN THE ZONING. Thankfully, we have won at every turn so far, and plan to continue!
This Ordinance was the major problem! It "ammended" current zoning-density codes to allow "shared-housing villages" in our RR Zones. RR Zones were created to protect environmentally sensitive zones and critical watershed areas. The Council passed this ordinance on March 21st, 2023.
The Council released $22 million dollars to fund the Homeless Village in a critical wetland area. The Council approved this resolution on March 21st, 2023.
Because Futurewise appealed the "Sharing Housing" Ordinance, the council voted on May 23rd, 2023 to change the ordinance's effective date to 12/1/23 in an effort to protect county funds should the appeal be upheld. Ord. 2023-5s was no longer in effect and could not be used.
On July 25th, 2023, the council voted unanimously to REPEAL "shared housing" in the RR Zone. However, they added a last-minute amendment so that the repeal is not effective until 12/15/23.
(Vetoed by Executive on August 9th | Council voted to Override veto on August 22.)
Although the County Council repealed Ord. 2023-5s on July 25th, at the last minute they changed it's effective date to 12/15/23, which would have left a window from Dec. 1-15 where Ord. 2023-5s would be in effect. Ord. 2023-42 fixed that problem.
The Parkland Spanaway Midland Land Use Advisory Commission voted to decline the Village permit because of the many environmental problems with this location.
This location is an environmentally irresponsible choice to construct a high density micro-city and multi-acre farm.
This location does not empower this vulnerable population but further debilitates them.
Other locations offer less cost, faster completion, lower ongoing maintenance, and less risk to the homeless, without damaging our watershed.
Expert Wetland Biologist with 40 years experience.
TRM'S Director, Duke Paulson's testimony starting at 27 minutes and his cross-examination by Zak Griefen starting at 2:01.
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