Category: Critical Areas Protection

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Letter to Planning Director and Mayor – Establishing a new “Environmentally Sensitive” Zone in the Comp Plan Update

By Joe Scordino
November 5, 2024

Director Hope – Is it possible to incorporate an “Environmentally Sensitive” Zoning in the Comp Plan Update to address areas of Edmonds that either should not be further developed or would have additional development restrictions to address environmental degradation and protection issues?

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Letter to Council – Council should require Herrara provide a FREE rewrite of their “woefully inadequate” DEIS

By Joan Bloom
October 29, 2024

Council,

Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc has failed to comply with SEPA requirements as outlined in the Washington Administrative Code in their submitted DEIS. If Council accepts this “woefully inadequate” DEIS and uses it to inform their decisions about the Comp Plan, Council will fail ALL Edmonds’ taxpayers.

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Letter to Edmonds Hearing Examiner Olbrecht regarding Denial of Reasonable Economic Use Variance for 963 Main Street

By Joe Scordino
October 28, 2024

Hearing Examiner Olbrecht:

This is in response to the Hearing Examiner Notice on the Edmonds City Website.

The Edmonds Environmental Council, a non-profit local organization for protection of the natural and human environment, requests that you revisit the public comments, both verbal and written, on the initial Application for Reasonable Economic Use Variance for 963 Main Street and DENY the request for reconsideration or any followup application for development in this critical area whether it involves a smaller ‘footprint’ or not.

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Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal Cleanup Site – Public Comment Period Extended

Ecology has received requests to extend the comment period. After considering the requests, the comment period for the Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal 0178 cleanup site will now close on Sunday, November 24, 2024, at 11:59 pm.

Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal 0178 Cleanup Site, View of the Lower Yard


Unocal Edmonds Bulk Fuel Terminal 0178

https://apps.ecology.wa.gov/cleanupsearch/site/5180

Volunteers complete Edmonds Marsh and creek restoration work

Edmonds Beacon
October 10th, 2024

by Joe Scordino

The Edmonds Marsh Volunteer Restoration Project concluded its work for the year in restoring freshwater connections to the Edmonds Marsh and reestablishing a “new” Shellabarger Creek open channel on the west side of Highway 104. A volunteer tree planting event in October will complete the goals of this habitat restoration project for 2024.

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