EEC – Edmonds Environmental Council

Letter – Proposal for Edmonds Marsh Near-Shore Estuary restoration plan using a Public/Private Partnership Business Plan

By Diane Buckshnis
November 8, 2024

Proposal for Edmonds Marsh Near-Shore Estuary restoration plan using a Public/Private Partnership Business Plan

Background:

In 2021-2022 WRIA 8 Salmon Recovery Manager Jason Mulvihill Kuntz, Edmonds City Council Member and WRIA 8 delegate Diane Buckshnis, and Edmonds citizen Jack Faris were tasked by Puget Sound Partnership (PSP) Salmon Recovery Council to work on establishing a public/private partnership (PPP) with high wealth donor foundations and/or citizens to obtain a private funding strategy to fund all the delayed costs which was estimated at $35M.

Letter to Mayor Rosen – THE REST OF THE STORY – Excess sediment in Shell Creek impacting salmon

By Joe Scordino
November 2, 2024

Mayor Rosen;

As you may know, this is the time of year when I’m out with Edmonds Stream Team volunteers (students and adults) in/along the “salmon-bearing” creeks in/near Edmonds (i.e., Shell Creek and Lunds Gulch Creek in Meadowdale Park) to survey adult salmon returns and spawning. Besides the salmon occurrence data, we also collect habitat condition data (and have been doing that each fall since 2017).

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?

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.